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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,