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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Poland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	38,358	152
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	38,344	153
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	38,339	154
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	38,320	155
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	38,283	156
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	38,268	157
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	38,249	157
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	38,220	158
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	38,204	159
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	38,204	160
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	38,572	160
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	38,606	161
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	38,615	162
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	38,623	162
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	38,591	163
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	38,573	163
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	38,544	164
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	38,516	164
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	38,511	165
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	38,502	166
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	38,475	166
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	38,443	167
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	38,250	167
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	37,914	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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 St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.