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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	81,439	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,474	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	81,534	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	81,595	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	81,566	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	81,473	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	81,354	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	81,190	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	81,009	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	80,781	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	80,500	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	80,301	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	80,292	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	80,443	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	80,663	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	81,000	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	81,704	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	82,366	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,674	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	82,923	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	83,110	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	83,178	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	83,213	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	83,811	121,234

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.