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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Burkina Faso	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	11,075	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	11,405	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	11,828	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	12,380	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	12,829	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	13,178	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	13,540	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	13,917	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	14,309	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	14,722	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	15,152	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	15,600	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	16,064	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	16,563	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	17,072	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	17,575	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	18,094	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	18,621	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	19,157	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	19,698	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	20,242	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	20,788	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	21,336	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	21,889	5,556

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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