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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Lesotho	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	1,908	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	1,916	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	1,922	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	1,926	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	1,926	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	1,925	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	1,922	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	1,919	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	1,917	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	1,915	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	1,916	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	1,920	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	1,925	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	1,930	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	1,936	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	1,942	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	1,948	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	1,953	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	1,958	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	1,962	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	1,987	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	2,013	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	2,037	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	2,059	21,889

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

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