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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 BarbadosMozambiqueBurkina FasoCongo - Kinshasa
27316,52211,07551,181
27416,84111,40552,782
27517,17611,82854,453
27617,52512,38056,170
27817,88912,82957,860
27918,26413,17859,599
28018,65213,54061,474
28119,05913,91763,479
28219,48014,30965,590
28319,92814,72267,800
28520,41815,15270,114
28620,95015,60072,550
28721,53516,06475,138
28822,15016,56377,792
28922,76817,07280,534
29023,39317,57583,368
29124,02318,09486,229
29124,66018,62189,193
29225,31819,15792,209
29325,99819,69895,232
29426,69420,24298,320
29427,40120,788101,499
29528,12121,336104,767
29528,90321,889108,171

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

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