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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Oman	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	2,348	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	2,403	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	2,457	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	2,510	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	2,562	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	2,613	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,663	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,713	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,764	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,816	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,871	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,928	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,986	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,047	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,110	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,174	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,240	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,307	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,375	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,444	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,512	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,582	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,651	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,696	17,709

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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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