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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Peru	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	20,963	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	21,291	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	21,631	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	21,980	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	22,339	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	22,707	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	23,055	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	23,380	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	23,708	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	23,944	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	24,087	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	24,228	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	24,364	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	24,491	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	24,607	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	24,714	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	24,812	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	24,904	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	24,999	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	25,403	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	25,966	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	26,308	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	26,508	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	26,771	108,171

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

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

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