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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	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	3,811	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	3,901	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	3,919	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	3,923	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	3,940	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	3,975	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	3,991	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	3,993	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	3,990	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	3,987	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	3,985	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	3,983	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	3,980	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	3,977	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	3,973	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	3,968	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	3,963	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	3,957	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	3,951	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	3,944	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	3,937	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	3,929	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	3,921	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	3,876	19,266

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.

All data sources

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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