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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBurkina FasoJordanLuxembourg
27311,0754,591433
27411,4054,700438
27511,8284,811443
27612,3804,923448
27812,8295,037454
27913,1785,161460
28013,5405,295467
28113,9175,765474
28214,3096,243482
28314,7226,397491
28515,1526,538500
28615,6006,680509
28716,0646,840521
28816,5636,952533
28917,0727,706547
29017,5758,839560
29118,0949,506571
29118,6219,863586
29219,15710,066599
29319,69810,273610
29420,24210,480623
29420,78810,628633
29521,33610,716643
29521,88910,849651

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.

All data sources

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

Jordan

  • 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
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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