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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	51,181	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	52,782	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	54,453	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	56,170	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	57,860	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	59,599	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	61,474	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	63,479	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	65,590	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	67,800	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	70,114	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	72,550	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	75,138	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	77,792	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	80,534	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	83,368	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	86,229	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	89,193	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	92,209	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	95,232	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	98,320	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	101,499	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	104,767	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	108,171	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.

All data sources

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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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