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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 BarbadosBurkina FasoIndia
27311,0751,000,965
27411,4051,018,667
27511,8281,036,256
27612,3801,053,663
27812,8291,070,882
27913,1781,087,941
28013,5401,104,803
28113,9171,121,354
28214,3091,137,576
28314,7221,153,547
28515,1521,169,239
28615,6001,184,638
28716,0641,199,810
28816,5631,214,839
28917,0721,229,765
29017,5751,244,577
29118,0941,259,236
29118,6211,273,693
29219,1571,287,902
29319,6981,301,821
29420,2421,315,530
29420,7881,329,062
29521,3361,339,912
29521,8891,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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