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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaUnited StatesEstonia
3,811279,0401,378
3,901282,1621,400
3,919284,9691,391
3,923287,6251,382
3,940290,1081,374
3,975292,8051,365
3,991295,5171,357
3,993298,3801,349
3,990301,2311,341
3,987304,0941,337
3,985306,7721,334
3,983309,3271,332
3,980311,5831,328
3,977313,8781,324
3,973316,0601,319
3,968318,3861,314
3,963320,7391,312
3,957323,0721,314
3,951325,1221,314
3,944326,8381,318
3,937328,3301,323
3,929331,5121,327
3,921332,0321,329
3,876333,2881,330

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

United States

  • 1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
  • 1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
  • 1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
  • 1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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