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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Denmark	United States
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	5,322	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	5,339	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	5,358	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	5,377	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	5,391	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	5,404	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	5,420	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	5,438	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	5,461	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	5,494	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	5,524	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	5,548	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	5,571	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	5,592	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	5,614	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,644	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,683	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,730	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,766	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,795	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,818	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	5,831	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	5,855	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	5,907	333,288

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.

All data sources

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

No separate list is published for Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.