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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	8,834

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK