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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Burkina Faso	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	11,075	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	11,405	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	11,828	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	12,380	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	12,829	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	13,178	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	13,540	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	13,917	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	14,309	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	14,722	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	15,152	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	15,600	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	16,064	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	16,563	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	17,072	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	17,575	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	18,094	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	18,621	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	19,157	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	19,698	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	20,242	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	20,788	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	21,336	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	21,889	17,288

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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