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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Burkina Faso	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	11,075	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	11,405	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	11,828	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	12,380	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	12,829	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	13,178	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	13,540	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	13,917	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	14,309	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	14,722	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	15,152	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	15,600	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	16,064	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	16,563	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	17,072	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	17,575	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	18,094	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	18,621	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	19,157	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	19,698	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	20,242	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	20,788	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	21,336	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	21,889	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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