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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	France	Burkina Faso	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	60,396	11,075	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	60,811	11,405	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	61,255	11,828	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	61,703	12,380	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	62,141	12,829	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	62,600	13,178	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	63,073	13,540	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	63,513	13,917	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	63,906	14,309	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	64,264	14,722	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	64,594	15,152	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	64,913	15,600	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	65,231	16,064	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	65,552	16,563	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	65,891	17,072	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	66,212	17,575	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	66,480	18,094	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	66,730	18,621	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	67,015	19,157	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	67,347	19,698	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	67,660	20,242	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	67,901	20,788	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	68,114	21,336	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	68,387	21,889	1,883

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, Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.