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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Türkiye	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	65,020	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	65,949	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	66,869	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	67,728	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	68,541	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	69,366	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	70,224	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	71,106	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	71,992	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	72,909	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	73,922	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	75,054	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	76,164	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	77,141	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	78,138	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	79,199	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	80,262	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	81,350	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	82,412	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	83,535	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	84,737	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	85,564	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	86,346	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	87,201	39,252

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

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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