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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	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	19,964	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	20,426	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	20,956	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,549	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	22,189	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	22,850	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	23,516	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	24,178	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	24,841	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	25,518	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	26,227	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	27,068	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	27,810	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	28,516	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	29,220	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	29,936	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	30,646	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	31,360	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	32,184	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	32,869	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	33,661	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	34,542	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	33,651	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	34,081	3,570

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

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.