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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 BarbadosHungaryBurkina FasoBosnia & Herzegovina
27310,24411,0753,811
27410,21811,4053,901
27510,19411,8283,919
27610,16512,3803,923
27810,13612,8293,940
27910,11413,1783,975
28010,09413,5403,991
28110,07813,9173,993
28210,06214,3093,990
28310,04514,7223,987
28510,02915,1523,985
28610,00715,6003,983
2879,97816,0643,980
2889,92716,5633,977
2899,90017,0723,973
2909,87317,5753,968
2919,85018,0943,963
2919,82118,6213,957
2929,79419,1573,951
2939,78219,6983,944
2949,77820,2423,937
2949,75720,7883,929
2959,71621,3363,921
2959,69021,8893,876

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

Hungary

  • 1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
  • 1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
  • 1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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.