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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 FasoSwitzerland
3,81111,0757,258
3,90111,4057,296
3,91911,8287,332
3,92312,3807,384
3,94012,8297,438
3,97513,1787,488
3,99113,5407,532
3,99313,9177,579
3,99014,3097,647
3,98714,7227,738
3,98515,1527,825
3,98315,6007,884
3,98016,0647,959
3,97716,5638,044
3,97317,0728,137
3,96817,5758,237
3,96318,0948,332
3,95718,6218,423
3,95119,1578,502
3,94419,6988,565
3,93720,2428,626
3,92920,7888,689
3,92121,3368,756
3,87621,8898,834

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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.