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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaParaguayRomania
3,8115,36622,414
3,9015,47322,262
3,9195,57922,106
3,9235,68321,931
3,9405,78621,828
3,9755,88621,704
3,9915,98421,571
3,9936,08021,443
3,9906,17321,129
3,9876,26420,779
3,9856,35220,607
3,9836,43820,485
3,9806,52220,385
3,9776,60520,296
3,9736,68820,224
3,9686,76920,151
3,9636,85020,055
3,9576,93019,938
3,9517,01219,823
3,9447,09519,713
3,9377,17919,622
3,9297,26319,496
3,9217,34819,351
3,8767,43219,266

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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