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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	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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