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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Syria	Burkina Faso	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	15,930	11,075	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	16,329	11,405	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	16,730	11,828	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	17,132	12,380	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	17,534	12,829	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	17,942	13,178	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	18,423	13,540	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	19,252	13,917	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	20,493	14,309	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	21,221	14,722	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	21,542	15,152	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	22,050	15,600	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	22,458	16,064	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	22,258	16,563	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	20,901	17,072	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	19,318	17,575	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	18,272	18,094	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	17,669	18,621	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	17,327	19,157	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	17,601	19,698	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	18,440	20,242	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	19,241	20,788	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	20,226	21,336	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	20,985	21,889	174,217

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

Syria

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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