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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Lebanon	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,460	387
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,499	390
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,554	393
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,610	396
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,665	398
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,721	401
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,777	404
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,853	405
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,954	406
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	4,036	409
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	4,082	412
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	4,097	414
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	4,115	416
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	4,206	420
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	4,696	426
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,365	435
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,640	445
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,688	455
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,680	468
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,562	485
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,331	504
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	4,986	516
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	4,802	518
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	4,713	530

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

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.