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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	19,715

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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