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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mexico	Türkiye	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	97,242	65,020	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	98,403	65,949	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	99,599	66,869	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	100,863	67,728	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	102,132	68,541	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	103,334	69,366	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	104,508	70,224	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	105,738	71,106	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	107,083	71,992	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	108,554	72,909	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	110,061	73,922	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	111,468	75,054	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	112,826	76,164	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	114,163	77,141	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	115,471	78,138	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	116,757	79,199	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	118,017	80,262	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	117,444	81,350	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	118,799	82,412	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	120,289	83,535	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	121,872	84,737	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	123,260	85,564	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	124,462	86,346	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	125,247	87,201	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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

Türkiye

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 - 1820: 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; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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