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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 FasoSouth Korea
3,81111,07546,617
3,90111,40547,008
3,91911,82847,370
3,92312,38047,645
3,94012,82947,892
3,97513,17848,083
3,99113,54048,185
3,99313,91748,438
3,99014,30948,684
3,98714,72249,055
3,98515,15249,308
3,98315,60049,554
3,98016,06449,937
3,97716,56350,200
3,97317,07250,429
3,96817,57550,747
3,96318,09451,015
3,95718,62151,218
3,95119,15751,362
3,94419,69851,585
3,93720,24251,765
3,92920,78851,836
3,92121,33651,745
3,87621,88951,731

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

South Korea

  • 1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
  • 1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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