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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Oman	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	2,348	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	2,403	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	2,457	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	2,510	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	2,562	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	2,613	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	2,663	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	2,713	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	2,764	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	2,816	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	2,871	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	2,928	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	2,986	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	3,047	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	3,110	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	3,174	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	3,240	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	3,307	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	3,375	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	3,444	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	3,512	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	3,582	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	3,651	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	3,696	10,200

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,

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.