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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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