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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	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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