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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Thailand	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	623	59,748	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	623	60,165	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	623	60,746	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	622	61,323	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	621	61,884	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	621	62,425	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	621	62,956	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	620	63,467	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	620	63,937	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	621	64,381	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	622	64,804	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	623	65,208	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	622	65,599	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	622	65,970	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	622	66,332	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	621	66,673	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	620	66,975	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	618	67,250	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	616	67,506	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	614	67,750	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	613	67,975	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	612	68,180	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	611	68,366	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	610	68,457	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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