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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Japan	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	126,512	387
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	126,755	390
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	127,056	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	127,324	396
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	127,558	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	127,658	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	127,679	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	127,762	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	127,904	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	127,969	409
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	127,958	412
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	127,967	414
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	127,755	416
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	127,476	420
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	127,257	426
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	127,186	435
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	127,034	445
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	126,857	455
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	126,631	468
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	126,368	485
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	126,092	504
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	125,634	516
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	125,427	518
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	124,762	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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