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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Central African Republic	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,889	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,980	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	4,054	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	4,128	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	4,215	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	4,289	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	4,363	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	4,449	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	4,544	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	4,641	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	4,742	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	4,845	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	4,950	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	5,057	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	5,167	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,278	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,392	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,507	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,625	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,745	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,874	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	6,025	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	6,154	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	6,291	4,713

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

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.