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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Lebanon	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,460	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,499	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,554	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,610	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,665	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,721	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,777	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,853	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,954	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	4,036	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	4,082	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	4,097	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	4,115	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	4,206	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	4,696	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,365	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,640	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,688	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,680	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,562	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,331	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	4,986	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	4,802	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	4,713	46,498

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.