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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Greece	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	10,618	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	10,662	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	10,718	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	10,757	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	10,783	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	10,809	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	10,841	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	10,874	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	10,901	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	10,930	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	10,959	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	10,973	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	10,957	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	10,898	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	10,819	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	10,747	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	10,677	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	10,633	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	10,612	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	10,590	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	10,579	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	10,556	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	10,499	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	10,437	7,432

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

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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