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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Romania	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	22,414	152
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	22,262	153
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	22,106	154
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	21,931	155
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	21,828	156
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	21,704	157
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	21,571	157
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	21,443	158
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	21,129	159
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	20,779	160
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	20,607	160
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	20,485	161
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	20,385	162
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	20,296	162
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	20,224	163
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	20,151	163
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	20,055	164
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	19,938	164
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	19,823	165
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	19,713	166
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	19,622	166
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	19,496	167
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	19,351	167
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	19,266	167

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,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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