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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	21,889	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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