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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Türkiye	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	65,020	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	65,949	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	66,869	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	67,728	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	68,541	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	69,366	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	70,224	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	71,106	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	71,992	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	72,909	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	73,922	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	75,054	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	76,164	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	77,141	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	78,138	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	79,199	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	80,262	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	81,350	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	82,412	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	83,535	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	84,737	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	85,564	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	86,346	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	87,201	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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