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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Korea	Burkina Faso	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	46,617	11,075	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	47,008	11,405	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	47,370	11,828	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	47,645	12,380	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	47,892	12,829	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	48,083	13,178	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	48,185	13,540	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	48,438	13,917	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	48,684	14,309	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	49,055	14,722	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	49,308	15,152	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	49,554	15,600	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	49,937	16,064	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	50,200	16,563	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	50,429	17,072	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	50,747	17,575	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	51,015	18,094	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	51,218	18,621	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	51,362	19,157	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	51,585	19,698	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	51,765	20,242	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	51,836	20,788	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	51,745	21,336	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	51,731	21,889	34,280

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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.

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