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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Burkina Faso	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	11,075	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	11,405	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	11,828	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	12,380	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	12,829	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	13,178	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	13,540	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	13,917	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	14,309	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	14,722	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	15,152	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	15,600	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	16,064	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	16,563	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	17,072	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	17,575	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	18,094	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	18,621	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	19,157	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	19,698	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	20,242	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	20,788	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	21,336	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	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

Iran

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.