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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Greece	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	10,618	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	10,662	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	10,718	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	10,757	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	10,783	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	10,809	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	10,841	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	10,874	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	10,901	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	10,930	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	10,959	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	10,973	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	10,957	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	10,898	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	10,819	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	10,747	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	10,677	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	10,633	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	10,612	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	10,590	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	10,579	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	10,556	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	10,499	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	10,437	68,457

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989