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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Burkina Faso	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	11,075	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	11,405	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	11,828	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,380	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	12,829	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,178	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,540	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,917	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,309	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,722	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	15,152	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	15,600	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	16,064	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	16,563	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	17,072	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	17,575	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	18,094	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	18,621	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	19,157	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	19,698	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	20,242	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	20,788	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	21,336	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	21,889	5,750

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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