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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Bangladesh	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	132,907	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	135,207	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	137,420	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	139,573	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	141,650	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	143,644	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	145,546	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	147,376	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	149,047	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	150,562	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	152,189	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	153,927	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	155,634	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	157,326	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	158,999	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	160,650	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	162,273	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	163,938	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	165,655	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	167,358	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	169,045	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	170,709	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	172,354	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	174,217	17,288

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.