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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Ecuador	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	12,268	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	12,446	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	12,629	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,827	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	13,074	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,368	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,661	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,915	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,133	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,352	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	14,569	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	14,786	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	15,002	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	15,218	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	15,433	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	15,647	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	15,860	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	16,072	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	16,282	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	16,489	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	16,693	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	16,894	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	17,093	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	17,288	19,266

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.