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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Burkina Faso	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	11,075	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	11,405	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	11,828	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	12,380	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	12,829	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	13,178	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	13,540	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	13,917	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	14,309	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	14,722	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	15,152	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	15,600	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	16,064	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	16,563	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	17,072	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	17,575	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	18,094	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	18,621	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	19,157	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	19,698	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	20,242	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	20,788	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	21,336	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	21,889	3,876

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

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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