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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Denmark	Brazil	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	5,322	174,320	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	5,339	176,902	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	5,358	179,389	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	5,377	181,721	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	5,391	183,970	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	5,404	186,165	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	5,420	188,330	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	5,438	190,438	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	5,461	192,450	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	5,494	194,458	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	5,524	196,464	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	5,548	198,408	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	5,571	200,152	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	5,592	201,894	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	5,614	203,614	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	5,644	205,358	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	5,683	207,148	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	5,730	208,859	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	5,766	210,537	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	5,795	212,258	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	5,818	213,940	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	5,831	215,577	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	5,855	216,720	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	5,907	217,718	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.

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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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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