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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	China
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	1,401,693

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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