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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 BarbadosEgyptBurkina FasoBosnia & Herzegovina
27366,00111,0753,811
27467,37711,4053,901
27568,79011,8283,919
27670,26912,3803,923
27871,78512,8293,940
27973,29813,1783,975
28074,83213,5403,991
28176,43213,9173,993
28278,14014,3093,990
28379,94514,7223,987
28581,84015,1523,985
28683,84415,6003,983
28785,96916,0643,980
28888,19816,5633,977
28990,56617,0723,973
29093,00917,5753,968
29195,43218,0943,963
29197,88218,6213,957
292100,30319,1573,951
293102,61719,6983,944
294104,81620,2423,937
294106,89320,7883,929
295108,87121,3363,921
295110,59321,8893,876

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

Egypt

  • 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
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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