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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaMoldovaJordan
3,8114,2444,591
3,9014,1994,700
3,9194,1544,811
3,9234,1084,923
3,9404,0595,037
3,9754,0135,161
3,9913,9665,295
3,9933,9195,765
3,9903,8736,243
3,9873,8296,397
3,9853,7886,538
3,9833,7486,680
3,9803,7096,840
3,9773,6716,952
3,9733,6337,706
3,9683,5958,839
3,9633,5589,506
3,9573,5229,863
3,9513,48510,066
3,9443,44810,273
3,9373,41210,480
3,9293,37610,628
3,9213,33910,716
3,8763,57010,849

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

Jordan

  • 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
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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