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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Burkina Faso	United States
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	11,075	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	11,405	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	11,828	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	12,380	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	12,829	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	13,178	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	13,540	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	13,917	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	14,309	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	14,722	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	15,152	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	15,600	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	16,064	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	16,563	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	17,072	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	17,575	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	18,094	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	18,621	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	19,157	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	19,698	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	20,242	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	20,788	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	21,336	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	21,889	333,288

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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