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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Burkina Faso	Panama
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	11,075	2,848
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	11,405	2,900
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	11,828	2,952
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	12,380	3,003
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	12,829	3,054
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	13,178	3,104
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	13,540	3,155
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	13,917	3,206
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	14,309	3,258
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	14,722	3,310
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	15,152	3,360
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	15,600	3,411
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	16,064	3,460
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	16,563	3,510
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	17,072	3,559
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	17,575	3,608
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	18,094	3,657
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	18,621	3,705
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	19,157	3,753
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	19,698	3,801
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	20,242	3,862
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	20,788	3,918
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	21,336	3,970
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	21,889	4,023

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.

Panama

1906–1945: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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