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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	81,439	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,474	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	81,534	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	81,595	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	81,566	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	81,473	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	81,354	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	81,190	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	81,009	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	80,781	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	80,500	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	80,301	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	80,292	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	80,443	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	80,663	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	81,000	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	81,704	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	82,366	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,674	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	82,923	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	83,110	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	83,178	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	83,213	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	83,811	3,228

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.