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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Romania	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	22,414	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	22,262	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	22,106	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	21,931	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	21,828	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	21,704	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	21,571	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	21,443	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	21,129	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	20,779	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	20,607	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	20,485	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	20,385	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	20,296	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	20,224	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	20,151	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	20,055	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	19,938	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	19,823	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	19,713	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	19,622	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	19,496	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	19,351	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	19,266	37,914

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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GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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,

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.

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,