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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Burkina Faso	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	11,075	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	11,405	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	11,828	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	12,380	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	12,829	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	13,178	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	13,540	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	13,917	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	14,309	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	14,722	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	15,152	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	15,600	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	16,064	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	16,563	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	17,072	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	17,575	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	18,094	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	18,621	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	19,157	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	19,698	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	20,242	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	20,788	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	21,336	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	21,889	47,625

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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