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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	81,439	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,474	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	81,534	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	81,595	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	81,566	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	81,473	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	81,354	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	81,190	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	81,009	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	80,781	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	80,500	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	80,301	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	80,292	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	80,443	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	80,663	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	81,000	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	81,704	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	82,366	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,674	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	82,923	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	83,110	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	83,178	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	83,213	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	83,811	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989