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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	4,713

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

Lebanon

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; the database as a whole is cited above.