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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	433
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	438
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	443
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	448
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	454
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	460
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	467
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	474
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	482
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	491
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	500
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	509
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	521
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	533
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	547
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	560
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	571
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	586
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	599
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	610
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	623
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	643
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	651

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.