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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	3,811	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	3,901	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	3,919	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	3,923	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	3,940	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	3,975	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	3,991	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	3,993	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	3,990	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	3,987	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	3,985	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	3,983	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	3,980	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	3,977	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	3,973	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	3,968	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	3,963	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	3,957	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	3,951	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	3,944	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	3,937	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	3,929	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	3,921	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	3,876	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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.