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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Burkina Faso	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	11,075	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	11,405	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	11,828	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	12,380	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	12,829	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	13,178	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	13,540	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	13,917	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	14,309	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	14,722	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	15,152	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	15,600	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	16,064	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	16,563	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	17,072	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	17,575	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	18,094	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	18,621	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	19,157	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	19,698	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	20,242	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	20,788	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	21,336	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	21,889	51,731

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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