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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Saudi Arabia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	19,964	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	20,426	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	20,956	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	21,549	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	22,189	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	22,850	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	23,516	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	24,178	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	24,841	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	25,518	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	26,227	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	27,068	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	27,810	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	28,516	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	29,220	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	29,936	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	30,646	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	31,360	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	32,184	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	32,869	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	33,661	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	34,542	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	33,651	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	34,081	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

Saudi Arabia

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.