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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	8,834

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK