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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Burkina Faso	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	11,075	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	11,405	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	11,828	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	12,380	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	12,829	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	13,178	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	13,540	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	13,917	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	14,309	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	14,722	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	15,152	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	15,600	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	16,064	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	16,563	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	17,072	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	17,575	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	18,094	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	18,621	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	19,157	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	19,698	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	20,242	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	20,788	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	21,336	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	21,889	38,685

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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.

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