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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	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	5,216

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.

All data sources

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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