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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	France	Burkina Faso	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	60,396	11,075	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	60,811	11,405	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	61,255	11,828	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	61,703	12,380	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	62,141	12,829	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	62,600	13,178	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	63,073	13,540	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	63,513	13,917	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	63,906	14,309	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	64,264	14,722	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	64,594	15,152	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	64,913	15,600	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	65,231	16,064	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	65,552	16,563	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	65,891	17,072	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	66,212	17,575	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	66,480	18,094	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	66,730	18,621	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	67,015	19,157	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	67,347	19,698	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	67,660	20,242	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	67,901	20,788	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	68,114	21,336	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	68,387	21,889	124,762

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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