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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.