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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Burkina Faso	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	174,217

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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