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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Oman	Australia
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	2,348	18,692
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	2,403	18,907
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	2,457	19,151
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	2,510	19,371
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	2,562	19,595
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	2,613	19,805
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,663	20,048
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,713	20,320
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,764	20,694
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,816	21,113
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,871	21,553
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,928	21,891
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,986	22,197
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,047	22,588
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,110	22,980
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,174	23,326
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,240	23,664
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,307	24,036
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,375	24,445
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,444	24,823
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,512	25,204
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,582	25,529
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,651	25,574
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,696	25,826

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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