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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Central African Republic	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,889	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,980	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	4,054	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	4,128	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	4,215	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	4,289	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	4,363	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	4,449	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	4,544	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	4,641	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	4,742	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	4,845	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	4,950	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	5,057	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	5,167	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,278	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,392	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,507	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,625	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,745	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,874	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	6,025	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	6,154	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	6,291	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.