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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 BangladeshHungaryBurkina Faso
132,90710,24411,075
135,20710,21811,405
137,42010,19411,828
139,57310,16512,380
141,65010,13612,829
143,64410,11413,178
145,54610,09413,540
147,37610,07813,917
149,04710,06214,309
150,56210,04514,722
152,18910,02915,152
153,92710,00715,600
155,6349,97816,064
157,3269,92716,563
158,9999,90017,072
160,6509,87317,575
162,2739,85018,094
163,9389,82118,621
165,6559,79419,157
167,3589,78219,698
169,0459,77820,242
170,7099,75720,788
172,3549,71621,336
174,2179,69021,889

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

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