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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Senegal	Burkina Faso	France
Dec 31, 1999	10,070	11,075	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	10,305	11,405	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	10,576	11,828	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	10,864	12,380	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	11,172	12,829	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	11,498	13,178	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	11,839	13,540	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	12,204	13,917	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	12,584	14,309	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	12,978	14,722	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	13,382	15,152	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	13,794	15,600	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	14,226	16,064	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	14,668	16,563	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	15,121	17,072	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	15,589	17,575	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	16,066	18,094	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	16,549	18,621	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	17,044	19,157	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	17,535	19,698	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	18,021	20,242	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	18,518	20,788	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	19,016	21,336	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	19,512	21,889	68,387

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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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