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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date AfghanistanBurkina FasoIsrael
22,20611,0755,927
22,46111,4056,088
22,50711,8286,236
23,60012,3806,366
25,00512,8296,484
25,69813,1786,603
26,33513,5406,723
27,15413,9176,846
27,38714,3096,972
27,70614,7227,100
28,48415,1527,226
29,12115,6007,360
29,75816,0647,498
30,42016,5637,637
31,10817,0727,781
31,82317,5757,931
32,56418,0948,091
33,33218,6218,251
34,12519,1578,412
34,94119,6988,576
35,97220,2428,742
37,03420,7888,899
38,12721,3369,047
39,25221,8899,188

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

Israel

  • 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

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