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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Burkina Faso	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	11,075	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	11,405	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	11,828	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	12,380	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	12,829	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	13,178	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	13,540	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	13,917	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	14,309	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	14,722	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	15,152	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	15,600	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	16,064	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	16,563	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	17,072	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	17,575	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	18,094	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	18,621	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	19,157	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	19,698	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	20,242	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	20,788	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	21,336	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	21,889	108,171

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.

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