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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	81,439	627
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,474	659
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	81,534	691
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	81,595	724
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	81,566	757
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	81,473	850
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	81,354	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	81,190	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	81,009	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	80,781	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	80,500	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	80,301	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	80,292	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	80,443	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	80,663	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	81,000	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	81,704	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	82,366	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,674	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	82,923	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	83,110	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	83,178	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	83,213	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	83,811	2,559

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.