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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	37,914

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,