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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	22,414	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	22,262	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	22,106	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,931	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	21,828	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	21,704	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	21,571	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	21,443	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,129	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	20,779	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	20,607	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	20,485	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	20,385	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	20,296	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	20,224	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	20,151	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	20,055	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	19,938	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,823	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,713	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	19,622	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	19,496	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	19,351	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	19,266	46,498

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.