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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	5,042

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 Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.