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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Oman	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	2,348	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	2,403	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	2,457	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	2,510	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	2,562	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	2,613	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,663	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,713	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,764	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,816	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,871	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,928	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,986	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,047	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,110	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,174	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,240	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,307	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,375	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,444	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,512	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,582	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,651	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,696	10,200

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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