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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	83,811

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.