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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Romania	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	22,414	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	22,262	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	22,106	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	21,931	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	21,828	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	21,704	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	21,571	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	21,443	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	21,129	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	20,779	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	20,607	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	20,485	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	20,385	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	20,296	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	20,224	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	20,151	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	20,055	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	19,938	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	19,823	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	19,713	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	19,622	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	19,496	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	19,351	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	19,266	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

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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