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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	1,883

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

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