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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 FasoPalestinian Territories
27310,24411,0752,996
27410,21811,4053,075
27510,19411,8283,155
27610,16512,3803,235
27810,13612,8293,315
27910,11413,1783,396
28010,09413,5403,478
28110,07813,9173,559
28210,06214,3093,642
28310,04514,7223,727
28510,02915,1523,817
28610,00715,6003,907
2879,97816,0643,997
2889,92716,5634,088
2899,90017,0724,178
2909,87317,5754,269
2919,85018,0944,359
2919,82118,6214,451
2929,79419,1574,533
2939,78219,6984,615
2949,77820,2424,715
2949,75720,7884,820
2959,71621,3364,930
2959,69021,8895,042

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.

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