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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Puerto Rico	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,800	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,811	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,819	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,824	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,826	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,827	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,822	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,805	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,783	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	3,761	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	3,741	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	3,722	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	3,679	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,636	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,589	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,534	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,473	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,411	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,352	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,295	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,268	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,247	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,232	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,228	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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