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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Burkina Faso	India
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	1,349,060

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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