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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	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	26,771

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

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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