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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	81,439	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,474	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	81,534	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	81,595	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	81,566	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	81,473	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	81,354	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	81,190	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	81,009	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	80,781	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	80,500	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	80,301	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	80,292	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	80,443	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	80,663	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	81,000	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	81,704	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	82,366	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,674	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	82,923	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	83,110	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	83,178	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	83,213	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	83,811	31,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.