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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Oman	India
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	2,348	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	2,403	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	2,457	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	2,510	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	2,562	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	2,613	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,663	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,713	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,764	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,816	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,871	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,928	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,986	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,047	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,110	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,174	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,240	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,307	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,375	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,444	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,512	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,582	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,651	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,696	1,349,060

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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