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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	530

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.