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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	81,439	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,474	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	81,534	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	81,595	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	81,566	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	81,473	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	81,354	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	81,190	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	81,009	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	80,781	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	80,500	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	80,301	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	80,292	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	80,443	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	80,663	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	81,000	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	81,704	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	82,366	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,674	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	82,923	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	83,110	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	83,178	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	83,213	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	83,811	3,570

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.