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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Germany	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	81,439	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	81,474	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	81,534	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	81,595	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	81,566	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	81,473	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	81,354	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	81,190	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	81,009	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	80,781	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	80,500	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	80,301	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	80,292	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	80,443	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	80,663	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	81,000	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	81,704	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	82,366	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	82,674	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	82,923	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	83,110	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	83,178	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	83,213	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	83,811	2,787

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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