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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Burkina Faso	China
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	11,075	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	11,405	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	11,828	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	12,380	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	12,829	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	13,178	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	13,540	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	13,917	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	14,309	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	14,722	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	15,152	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	15,600	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	16,064	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	16,563	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	17,072	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	17,575	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	18,094	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	18,621	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,157	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,698	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	20,242	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	20,788	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	21,336	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	21,889	1,401,693

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.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.