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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Côte d’Ivoire	Burkina Faso	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	17,106	11,075	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	17,552	11,405	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	18,010	11,828	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	18,438	12,380	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	18,895	12,829	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	19,432	13,178	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	19,968	13,540	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	20,512	13,917	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	21,097	14,309	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	21,699	14,722	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	22,285	15,152	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	22,845	15,600	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	23,343	16,064	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	23,879	16,563	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	24,492	17,072	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	25,104	17,575	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	25,719	18,094	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	26,348	18,621	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	26,984	19,157	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	27,614	19,698	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	28,252	20,242	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	28,895	20,788	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	29,546	21,336	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	30,279	21,889	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.