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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Moldova	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	4,244	387
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	4,199	390
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	4,154	393
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	4,108	396
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	4,059	398
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	4,013	401
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	3,966	404
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	3,919	405
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	3,873	406
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	3,829	409
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	3,788	412
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	3,748	414
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	3,709	416
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	3,671	420
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	3,633	426
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	3,595	435
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	3,558	445
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	3,522	455
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	3,485	468
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	3,448	485
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	3,412	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	3,376	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	3,339	518
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	3,570	530

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 Moldova, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.