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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	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,800	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,811	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,819	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,824	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,826	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,827	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,822	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,805	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,783	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	3,761	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	3,741	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	3,722	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	3,679	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,636	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,589	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,534	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,473	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,411	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,352	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,295	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,268	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,247	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,232	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,228	10,437

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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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