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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	51,332

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,

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978