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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Burkina Faso	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	11,075	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	11,405	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	11,828	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,380	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	12,829	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,178	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,540	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,917	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,309	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,722	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	15,152	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	15,600	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	16,064	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	16,563	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	17,072	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	17,575	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	18,094	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	18,621	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,157	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,698	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	20,242	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	20,788	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	21,336	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	21,889	8,834

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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