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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Burkina Faso	New Zealand
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	11,075	3,890
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	11,405	3,912
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	11,828	3,947
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	12,380	4,018
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	12,829	4,094
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	13,178	4,151
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	13,540	4,198
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	13,917	4,248
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	14,309	4,287
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	14,722	4,323
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	15,152	4,370
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	15,600	4,416
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	16,064	4,446
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	16,563	4,471
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	17,072	4,516
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	17,575	4,597
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	18,094	4,695
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	18,621	4,800
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,157	4,897
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,698	4,982
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	20,242	5,074
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	20,788	5,159
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	21,336	5,188
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	21,889	5,245

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.

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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