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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	5,907

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.