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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Congo - Kinshasa	China
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	51,181	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	52,782	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	54,453	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	56,170	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	57,860	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	59,599	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	61,474	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	63,479	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	65,590	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	67,800	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	70,114	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	72,550	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	75,138	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	77,792	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	80,534	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	83,368	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	86,229	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	89,193	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	92,209	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	95,232	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	98,320	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	101,499	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	104,767	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	108,171	1,401,693

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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