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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	422
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	430
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	438
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	447
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	455
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	463
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	471
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	478
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	486
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	494
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	501
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	509
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	516
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	524
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	531
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	539
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	546
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	553
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	562
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	568
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	574
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	580
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	585
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	590

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 Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.