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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Burkina Faso	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	11,075	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	11,405	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	11,828	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,380	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	12,829	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,178	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,540	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,917	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,309	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,722	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	15,152	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	15,600	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	16,064	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	16,563	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	17,072	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	17,575	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	18,094	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	18,621	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,157	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,698	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	20,242	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	20,788	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	21,336	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	21,889	9,107

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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