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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	3,811	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	3,901	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	3,919	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	3,923	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	3,940	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	3,975	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	3,991	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	3,993	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	3,990	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	3,987	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	3,985	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	3,983	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	3,980	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	3,977	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	3,973	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	3,968	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	3,963	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	3,957	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	3,951	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	3,944	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	3,937	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	3,929	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	3,921	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	3,876	46,498

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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