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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	France	Burkina Faso	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	60,396	11,075	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	60,811	11,405	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	61,255	11,828	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	61,703	12,380	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	62,141	12,829	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	62,600	13,178	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	63,073	13,540	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	63,513	13,917	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	63,906	14,309	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	64,264	14,722	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	64,594	15,152	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	64,913	15,600	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	65,231	16,064	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	65,552	16,563	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	65,891	17,072	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	66,212	17,575	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	66,480	18,094	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	66,730	18,621	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	67,015	19,157	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	67,347	19,698	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	67,660	20,242	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	67,901	20,788	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	68,114	21,336	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	68,387	21,889	6,291

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

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.