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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Congo - Kinshasa	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	51,181	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	52,782	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	54,453	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	56,170	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	57,860	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	59,599	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	61,474	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	63,479	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	65,590	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	67,800	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	70,114	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	72,550	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	75,138	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	77,792	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	80,534	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	83,368	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	86,229	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	89,193	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	92,209	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	95,232	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	98,320	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	101,499	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	104,767	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	108,171	10,099

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.