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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BangladeshBurkina FasoIran
132,90711,07564,704
135,20711,40565,411
137,42011,82866,167
139,57312,38066,689
141,65012,82967,807
143,64413,17868,480
145,54613,54069,325
147,37613,91770,158
149,04714,30971,040
150,56214,72271,942
152,18915,15272,888
153,92715,60073,826
155,63416,06474,625
157,32616,56375,446
158,99917,07276,418
160,65017,57577,521
162,27318,09478,652
163,93818,62179,700
165,65519,15780,725
167,35819,69881,721
169,04520,24282,685
170,70920,78883,614
172,35421,33684,505
174,21721,88985,108

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

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Iran

  • 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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.