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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Germany	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	81,439	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	81,474	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	81,534	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	81,595	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	81,566	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	81,473	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	81,354	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	81,190	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	81,009	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	80,781	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	80,500	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	80,301	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	80,292	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	80,443	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	80,663	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	81,000	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	81,704	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	82,366	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	82,674	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	82,923	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	83,110	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	83,178	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	83,213	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	83,811	21,889

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

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.