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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Philippines	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	79,346	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	81,131	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	83,023	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	84,876	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	86,697	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	88,568	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	90,418	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	92,253	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	94,098	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	95,923	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	97,627	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	99,317	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	100,999	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	102,618	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	104,299	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	106,076	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	107,868	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	109,493	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	111,094	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	112,843	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	114,636	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	117,026	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	119,473	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	121,234	8,834

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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK