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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 & HerzegovinaPolandBurkina Faso
3,81138,35811,075
3,90138,34411,405
3,91938,33911,828
3,92338,32012,380
3,94038,28312,829
3,97538,26813,178
3,99138,24913,540
3,99338,22013,917
3,99038,20414,309
3,98738,20414,722
3,98538,57215,152
3,98338,60615,600
3,98038,61516,064
3,97738,62316,563
3,97338,59117,072
3,96838,57317,575
3,96338,54418,094
3,95738,51618,621
3,95138,51119,157
3,94438,50219,698
3,93738,47520,242
3,92938,44320,788
3,92138,25021,336
3,87637,91421,889

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

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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