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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 BarbadosCubaBurkina Faso
27311,10811,075
27411,14711,405
27511,17911,828
27611,21012,380
27811,24112,829
27911,26013,178
28011,26813,540
28111,26613,917
28211,26114,309
28311,25814,722
28511,26015,152
28611,26215,600
28711,26416,064
28811,26216,563
28911,25017,072
29011,23817,575
29111,21418,094
29111,18018,621
29211,14719,157
29311,11619,698
29411,10520,242
29411,08920,788
29511,04621,336
29511,00321,889

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

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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