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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	4,259

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 Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.