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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Romania	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	22,414	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	22,262	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	22,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	21,931	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	21,828	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	21,704	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	21,571	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	21,443	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	21,129	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	20,779	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	20,607	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	20,485	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	20,385	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	20,296	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	20,224	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	20,151	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	20,055	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	19,938	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	19,823	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	19,713	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	19,622	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	19,496	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	19,351	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	19,266	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

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).

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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