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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Burkina Faso	China
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	11,075	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	11,405	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	11,828	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	12,380	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	12,829	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	13,178	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	13,540	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	13,917	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	14,309	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	14,722	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	15,152	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	15,600	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	16,064	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	16,563	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	17,072	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	17,575	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	18,094	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	18,621	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	19,157	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	19,698	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	20,242	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	20,788	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	21,336	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	21,889	1,401,693

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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