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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Burkina Faso	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	11,075	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	11,405	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	11,828	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	12,380	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	12,829	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	13,178	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	13,540	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	13,917	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	14,309	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	14,722	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	15,152	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	15,600	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	16,064	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	16,563	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	17,072	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	17,575	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	18,094	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	18,621	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	19,157	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	19,698	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	20,242	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	20,788	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	21,336	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	21,889	68,457

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

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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