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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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