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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 Burkina FasoBosnia & HerzegovinaSwitzerland
11,0753,8117,258
11,4053,9017,296
11,8283,9197,332
12,3803,9237,384
12,8293,9407,438
13,1783,9757,488
13,5403,9917,532
13,9173,9937,579
14,3093,9907,647
14,7223,9877,738
15,1523,9857,825
15,6003,9837,884
16,0643,9807,959
16,5633,9778,044
17,0723,9738,137
17,5753,9688,237
18,0943,9638,332
18,6213,9578,423
19,1573,9518,502
19,6983,9448,565
20,2423,9378,626
20,7883,9298,689
21,3363,9218,756
21,8893,8768,834

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Switzerland

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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