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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	Lesotho	Burkina Faso	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	11,075	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	11,405	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	11,828	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	12,380	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	12,829	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	13,178	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	13,540	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	13,917	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	14,309	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	14,722	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	15,152	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	15,600	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	16,064	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	16,563	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	17,072	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	17,575	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	18,094	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	18,621	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	19,157	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	19,698	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	20,242	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	20,788	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	21,336	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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