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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	29,417

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

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 Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.