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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Morocco	Burkina Faso	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	28,400	11,075	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	28,744	11,405	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	29,094	11,828	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	29,447	12,380	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	29,806	12,829	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	30,169	13,178	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	30,552	13,540	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	30,953	13,917	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	31,354	14,309	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	31,754	14,722	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	32,154	15,152	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	32,553	15,600	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	32,951	16,064	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	33,346	16,563	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	33,737	17,072	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	34,124	17,575	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	34,511	18,094	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	34,898	18,621	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	35,279	19,157	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	35,653	19,698	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	36,018	20,242	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	36,375	20,788	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	36,723	21,336	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	37,101	21,889	110,593

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

Egypt

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

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