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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	34,280

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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