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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Romania	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	22,414	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	22,262	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	22,106	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	21,931	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	21,828	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	21,704	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	21,571	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	21,443	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	21,129	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	20,779	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	20,607	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	20,485	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	20,385	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	20,296	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	20,224	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	20,151	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	20,055	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	19,938	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	19,823	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	19,713	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	19,622	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	19,496	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	19,351	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	19,266	18,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.