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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	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	11,075	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	11,405	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	11,828	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	12,380	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	12,829	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	13,178	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	13,540	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	13,917	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	14,309	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	14,722	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	15,152	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	15,600	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	16,064	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	16,563	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	17,072	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	17,575	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	18,094	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	18,621	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	19,157	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	19,698	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	20,242	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	20,788	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	21,336	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	21,889	63,382

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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