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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Poland	Ecuador	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	38,358	12,268	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	38,344	12,446	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	38,339	12,629	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	38,320	12,827	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	38,283	13,074	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	38,268	13,368	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	38,249	13,661	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	38,220	13,915	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	38,204	14,133	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	38,204	14,352	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	38,572	14,569	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	38,606	14,786	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	38,615	15,002	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	38,623	15,218	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	38,591	15,433	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	38,573	15,647	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	38,544	15,860	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	38,516	16,072	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	38,511	16,282	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	38,502	16,489	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	38,475	16,693	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	38,443	16,894	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	38,250	17,093	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	37,914	17,288	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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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