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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	7,432

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.