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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	6,291

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.