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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	France	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	60,396	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	60,811	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	61,255	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	61,703	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	62,141	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	62,600	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	63,073	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	63,513	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	63,906	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	64,264	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	64,594	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	64,913	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	65,231	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	65,552	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	65,891	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	66,212	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	66,480	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	66,730	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	67,015	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	67,347	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	67,660	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	67,901	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	68,114	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	68,387	21,889

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.

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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