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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 TurkmenistanBosnia & HerzegovinaRomania
4,3243,81122,414
4,3853,90122,262
4,4443,91922,106
4,5023,92321,931
4,5563,94021,828
4,6083,97521,704
4,6643,99121,571
4,7193,99321,443
4,7733,99021,129
4,8283,98720,779
4,8843,98520,607
4,9403,98320,485
4,9963,98020,385
5,0533,97720,296
5,1103,97320,224
5,1693,96820,151
5,2273,96320,055
5,2873,95719,938
5,3463,95119,823
5,4053,94419,713
5,4643,93719,622
5,5223,92919,496
5,5793,92119,351
5,6573,87619,266

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 Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.