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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Burkina Faso	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	11,075	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	11,405	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	11,828	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	12,380	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	12,829	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	13,178	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	13,540	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	13,917	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	14,309	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	14,722	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	15,152	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	15,600	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	16,064	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	16,563	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	17,072	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	17,575	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	18,094	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	18,621	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	19,157	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	19,698	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	20,242	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	20,788	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	21,336	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	21,889	4,259

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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