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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.