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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Lebanon	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	623	3,460	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	623	3,499	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	623	3,554	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	622	3,610	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	621	3,665	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	621	3,721	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	621	3,777	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	620	3,853	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	620	3,954	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	621	4,036	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	622	4,082	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	623	4,097	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	622	4,115	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	622	4,206	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	622	4,696	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	621	5,365	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	620	5,640	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	618	5,688	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	616	5,680	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	614	5,562	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	613	5,331	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	612	4,986	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	611	4,802	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	610	4,713	21,889

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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Lebanon

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.