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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Albania	France
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,085	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,065	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,047	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,038	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,026	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,014	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,998	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,979	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,957	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,934	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,915	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,900	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,892	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	2,888	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	2,882	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	2,876	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	2,868	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	2,863	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	2,861	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	2,854	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	2,842	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	2,825	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	2,799	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	2,787	68,387

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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