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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Sudan	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	26,168	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	26,771	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	27,387	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	28,017	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	28,662	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	29,321	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	29,996	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	30,686	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	31,393	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	32,137	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	33,078	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	33,891	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	34,568	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	35,293	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	36,093	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	37,058	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	38,165	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	39,294	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	40,512	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	41,764	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	42,952	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	44,121	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	45,290	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	46,498	5,556

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

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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