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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 BarbadosSaudi ArabiaBurkina FasoMorocco
27319,96411,07528,400
27420,42611,40528,744
27520,95611,82829,094
27621,54912,38029,447
27822,18912,82929,806
27922,85013,17830,169
28023,51613,54030,552
28124,17813,91730,953
28224,84114,30931,354
28325,51814,72231,754
28526,22715,15232,154
28627,06815,60032,553
28727,81016,06432,951
28828,51616,56333,346
28929,22017,07233,737
29029,93617,57534,124
29130,64618,09434,511
29131,36018,62134,898
29232,18419,15735,279
29332,86919,69835,653
29433,66120,24236,018
29434,54220,78836,375
29533,65121,33636,723
29534,08121,88937,101

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

Saudi Arabia

  • 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

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