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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Estonia	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	1,378	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	1,400	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	1,391	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	1,382	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	1,374	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	1,365	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	1,357	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	1,349	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	1,341	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	1,337	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	1,334	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	1,332	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	1,328	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	1,324	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	1,319	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	1,314	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	1,312	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	1,314	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	1,314	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	1,318	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	1,323	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	1,327	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	1,329	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	1,330	83,811

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 Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.