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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Oman	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	2,348	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	2,403	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	2,457	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	2,510	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	2,562	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	2,613	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	2,663	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	2,713	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	2,764	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	2,816	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	2,871	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	2,928	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	2,986	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	3,047	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	3,110	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	3,174	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	3,240	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	3,307	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	3,375	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	3,444	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	3,512	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	3,582	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	3,651	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	3,696	3,876

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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