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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Jordan	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	4,591	433
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	4,700	438
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	4,811	443
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	4,923	448
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	5,037	454
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	5,161	460
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	5,295	467
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	5,765	474
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	6,243	482
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	6,397	491
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	6,538	500
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	6,680	509
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	6,840	521
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	6,952	533
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	7,706	547
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	8,839	560
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	9,506	571
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	9,863	586
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	10,066	599
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	10,273	610
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	10,480	623
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	10,628	633
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	10,716	643
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	10,849	651

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

Jordan

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
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, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.