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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Thailand	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	59,748	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	60,165	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	60,746	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	61,323	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	61,884	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	62,425	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	62,956	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	63,467	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	63,937	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	64,381	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	64,804	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	65,208	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	65,599	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	65,970	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	66,332	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	66,673	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	66,975	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	67,250	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	67,506	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	67,750	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	67,975	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	68,180	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	68,366	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	68,457	10,437

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995