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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaBurkina FasoBrazil
3,81111,075174,320
3,90111,405176,902
3,91911,828179,389
3,92312,380181,721
3,94012,829183,970
3,97513,178186,165
3,99113,540188,330
3,99313,917190,438
3,99014,309192,450
3,98714,722194,458
3,98515,152196,464
3,98315,600198,408
3,98016,064200,152
3,97716,563201,894
3,97317,072203,614
3,96817,575205,358
3,96318,094207,148
3,95718,621208,859
3,95119,157210,537
3,94419,698212,258
3,93720,242213,940
3,92920,788215,577
3,92121,336216,720
3,87621,889217,718

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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