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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 Central African RepublicBosnia & HerzegovinaRomania
3,8893,81122,414
3,9803,90122,262
4,0543,91922,106
4,1283,92321,931
4,2153,94021,828
4,2893,97521,704
4,3633,99121,571
4,4493,99321,443
4,5443,99021,129
4,6413,98720,779
4,7423,98520,607
4,8453,98320,485
4,9503,98020,385
5,0573,97720,296
5,1673,97320,224
5,2783,96820,151
5,3923,96320,055
5,5073,95719,938
5,6253,95119,823
5,7453,94419,713
5,8743,93719,622
6,0253,92919,496
6,1543,92119,351
6,2913,87619,266

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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