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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	21,889	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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