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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bolivia	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	8,007	51,181	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	8,177	52,782	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	8,351	54,453	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	8,529	56,170	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	8,711	57,860	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	8,895	59,599	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	9,081	61,474	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	9,268	63,479	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	9,457	65,590	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	9,647	67,800	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	9,836	70,114	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	10,024	72,550	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	10,211	75,138	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	10,397	77,792	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	10,581	80,534	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	10,763	83,368	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	10,942	86,229	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	11,118	89,193	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	11,289	92,209	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	11,456	95,232	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	11,621	98,320	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	11,775	101,499	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	11,917	104,767	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	12,060	108,171	21,889

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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