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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Albania	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,085	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,065	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,047	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,038	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,026	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,014	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	2,998	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	2,979	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	2,957	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	2,934	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	2,915	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	2,900	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	2,892	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	2,888	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	2,882	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	2,876	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	2,868	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	2,863	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	2,861	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	2,854	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	2,842	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	2,825	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	2,799	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	2,787	34,280

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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