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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	4,713

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,

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828