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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Greece	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	10,618	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	10,662	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	10,718	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	10,757	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	10,783	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	10,809	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	10,841	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	10,874	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	10,901	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	10,930	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	10,959	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	10,973	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	10,957	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	10,898	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	10,819	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	10,747	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	10,677	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	10,633	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	10,612	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	10,590	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	10,579	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	10,556	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	10,499	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	10,437	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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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