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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Burkina Faso	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	11,075	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	11,405	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	11,828	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	12,380	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	12,829	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	13,178	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	13,540	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	13,917	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	14,309	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	14,722	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	15,152	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	15,600	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	16,064	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	16,563	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	17,072	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	17,575	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	18,094	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	18,621	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	19,157	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	19,698	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	20,242	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	20,788	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	21,336	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	21,889	8,834

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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