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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaRomaniaMali
3,81122,41410,596
3,90122,26210,833
3,91922,10610,890
3,92321,93111,007
3,94021,82811,307
3,97521,70411,579
3,99121,57111,804
3,99321,44312,043
3,99021,12912,337
3,98720,77912,657
3,98520,60712,986
3,98320,48513,325
3,98020,38513,679
3,97720,29614,040
3,97320,22414,412
3,96820,15114,803
3,96320,05515,210
3,95719,93815,629
3,95119,82316,060
3,94419,71316,507
3,93719,62216,967
3,92919,49617,442
3,92119,35117,930
3,87619,26618,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.