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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	India
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	1,349,060

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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