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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	3,811	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	3,901	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	3,919	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	3,923	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	3,940	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	3,975	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	3,991	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	3,993	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	3,990	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	3,987	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	3,985	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	3,983	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	3,980	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	3,977	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	3,973	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	3,968	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	3,963	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	3,957	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	3,951	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	3,944	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	3,937	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	3,929	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	3,921	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	3,876	10,200

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.