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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Lebanon	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,460	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,499	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,554	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,610	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,665	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,721	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,777	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,853	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,954	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	4,036	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	4,082	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	4,097	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	4,115	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	4,206	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	4,696	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,365	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,640	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,688	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,680	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,562	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,331	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	4,986	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	4,802	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	4,713	31,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.