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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Saudi Arabia	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	19,964	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	20,426	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	20,956	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,549	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	22,189	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	22,850	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	23,516	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	24,178	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	24,841	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	25,518	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	26,227	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	27,068	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	27,810	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	28,516	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	29,220	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	29,936	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	30,646	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	31,360	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	32,184	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	32,869	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	33,661	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	34,542	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	33,651	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	34,081	5,907

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.