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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	2,748

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 Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.