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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	3,811	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	3,901	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	3,919	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	3,923	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	3,940	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	3,975	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	3,991	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	3,993	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	3,990	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	3,987	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	3,985	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	3,983	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	3,980	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	3,977	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	3,973	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	3,968	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	3,963	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	3,957	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	3,951	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	3,944	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	3,937	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	3,929	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	3,921	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	3,876	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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