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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	Latvia	Burkina Faso	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	2,386	11,075	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	2,363	11,405	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	2,333	11,828	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	2,306	12,380	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	2,284	12,829	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	2,259	13,178	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	2,235	13,540	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	2,215	13,917	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	2,197	14,309	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	2,174	14,722	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	2,138	15,152	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	2,093	15,600	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	2,055	16,064	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	2,030	16,563	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	2,009	17,072	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	1,991	17,575	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	1,974	18,094	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	1,956	18,621	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	1,938	19,157	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	1,923	19,698	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	1,910	20,242	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	1,897	20,788	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	1,880	21,336	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	1,883	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.

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

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