Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Four countries are being compared, the most the chart can show clearly. Remove one to add another.

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 BarbadosMaliBurkina FasoSenegal
27310,59611,07510,070
27410,83311,40510,305
27510,89011,82810,576
27611,00712,38010,864
27811,30712,82911,172
27911,57913,17811,498
28011,80413,54011,839
28112,04313,91712,204
28212,33714,30912,584
28312,65714,72212,978
28512,98615,15213,382
28613,32515,60013,794
28713,67916,06414,226
28814,04016,56314,668
28914,41217,07215,121
29014,80317,57515,589
29115,21018,09416,066
29115,62918,62116,549
29216,06019,15717,044
29316,50719,69817,535
29416,96720,24218,021
29417,44220,78818,518
29517,93021,33619,016
29518,49421,88919,512

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

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