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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	3,422

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

Uruguay

1800-1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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