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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Russia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	147,218	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	146,600	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	145,980	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	145,310	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	144,652	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	144,071	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	143,522	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	143,053	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	142,809	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	142,746	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	142,789	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	142,853	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	142,964	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	143,205	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	143,510	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	146,094	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	146,410	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	146,678	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	146,846	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	146,834	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	146,768	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	146,463	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	145,849	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	146,693	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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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