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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Türkiye	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	65,020	627
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	65,949	659
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	66,869	691
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	67,728	724
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	68,541	757
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	69,366	850
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	70,224	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	71,106	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	71,992	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	72,909	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	73,922	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	75,054	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	76,164	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	77,141	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	78,138	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	79,199	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	80,262	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	81,350	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	82,412	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	83,535	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	84,737	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	85,564	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	86,346	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	87,201	2,559

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

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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