Population, long-run history: compare countries

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Poland
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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	7,666

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.