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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Egypt	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	66,001	387
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	67,377	390
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	68,790	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	70,269	396
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	71,785	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	73,298	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	74,832	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	76,432	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	78,140	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	79,945	409
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	81,840	412
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	83,844	414
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	85,969	416
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	88,198	420
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	90,566	426
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	93,009	435
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	95,432	445
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	97,882	455
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	100,303	468
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	102,617	485
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	104,816	504
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	106,893	516
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	108,871	518
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	110,593	530

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

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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

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