Source:

https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2020 (GDP) [1952-2018]

https://datasets.iisg.amsterdam/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10622/SNETZV (population) [1960-2010]

Tool:

Python/matplotlib

The population data was available at 10 year increments from 1960 to 2010. Missing years between were interpolated and for 1952-1960 and 2010-2018 the first/last available number was used.

Edit: the x-axis are incorrectly marked. It should say "year" instead of "leto"

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What about the Kosovo? It´s an independent country after all.

You should also label the dates correctly, they are all Ex-You countries.

... not really. Only slightly above 50 percent of world countries recognize kosovar independence. Not even all of the eu countries recognize it...

The GDP data does not include Kosovo. It is not stated why in the documentation, I assume because of the fact it's not recognised by a large number of countries

It's weird to use "North Macedonia" in the context of Yugoslavia

Interesting data though

Looking at this it's funny to hear Slovenia sometimes being accused of being selfish to leave Yugoslavia, prospering while others were held back by the war ... when in fact it was constantly way ahead, in the 70s and 80s just as it is now.

Probably because the Kosovo was a part of Serbia, instead of being a Yugoslav republic.

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I see you are a fellow matplotlib gigachad.

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Data is incorrect. Croatian GDP is larger than Serbian.

Im guessing here, but maybe they're counting Kosovo as a part of Serbia. That would maybe explain this.

The Kosovo is recognized by 115 of 193 UN member states. It became part of Serbia 1912, before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries.

Seems like the economy was doing just great until the 80s

> prospering while others were held back by the war ...

Fun fact, we lost many companies because the yugo market was gone since they were off shooting eachother.

> What about the Kosovo? It´s an independent country after all.

Data wouldn't exist as it's obviously taken from the constituent republics.

It was a *colony of the ottomans for centuries.

> Im guessing here, but maybe they're counting Kosovo as a part of Serbia. That would maybe explain this.

Kosovo [just makes up the difference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)). So, they'd be around equal if that was the case.

Here, on the other hand, there's a noticeable difference.

Yes, I wonder what happened in 1980. /s

Maybe you can call it that way. But the Kosovo is not inhabited by Serbs, so as part of Serbia it was a colony of them. That´s why they gained independence.

now do external debt of each country compared to total Yugoslavian debt

No I agree with afterwards, but let’s not whitewash the ottomans horrific colonialism for 500+ years.

Slovenia's gdp/capita growth from 1952 (no data before) to 1980 was actually the highest of any developed country (apart from Japan) in the world.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/maddison-data-gdp-per-capita-in-2011us-single-benchmark?tab=table&time=1953..1980&country=~SVN