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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Burkina Faso	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	11,075	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	11,405	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	11,828	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	12,380	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	12,829	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	13,178	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	13,540	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	13,917	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	14,309	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	14,722	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	15,152	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	15,600	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	16,064	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	16,563	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	17,072	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	17,575	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	18,094	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	18,621	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	19,157	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	19,698	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	20,242	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	20,788	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	21,336	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	21,889	5,458

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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