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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 BarbadosDominicaBurkina FasoFrance
2737011,07560,396
2747111,40560,811
2757111,82861,255
2767212,38061,703
2787212,82962,141
2797213,17862,600
2807213,54063,073
2817213,91763,513
2827214,30963,906
2837314,72264,264
2857315,15264,594
2867315,60064,913
2877316,06465,231
2887316,56365,552
2897317,07265,891
2907317,57566,212
2917418,09466,480
2917418,62166,730
2927419,15767,015
2937419,69867,347
2947520,24267,660
2947520,78867,901
2957621,33668,114
2957621,88968,387

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

France

  • 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
  • 1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
  • 1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
  • 1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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