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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Burundi
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	6,128
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	6,282
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	6,466
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	6,670
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	6,897
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	7,167
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	7,439
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	7,709
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	7,991
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	8,318
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	8,741
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	9,140
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	9,440
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	9,748
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	10,069
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	10,380
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	10,577
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	10,721
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	10,955
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	11,229
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	11,602
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	11,987
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	12,384
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	12,795

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.

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