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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Burkina Faso	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	11,075	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	11,405	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	11,828	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	12,380	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	12,829	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	13,178	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	13,540	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	13,917	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	14,309	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	14,722	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	15,152	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	15,600	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	16,064	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	16,563	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	17,072	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	17,575	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	18,094	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	18,621	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	19,157	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	19,698	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	20,242	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	20,788	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	21,336	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	21,889	68,457

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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