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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 & HerzegovinaThailand
11,0753,81159,748
11,4053,90160,165
11,8283,91960,746
12,3803,92361,323
12,8293,94061,884
13,1783,97562,425
13,5403,99162,956
13,9173,99363,467
14,3093,99063,937
14,7223,98764,381
15,1523,98564,804
15,6003,98365,208
16,0643,98065,599
16,5633,97765,970
17,0723,97366,332
17,5753,96866,673
18,0943,96366,975
18,6213,95767,250
19,1573,95167,506
19,6983,94467,750
20,2423,93767,975
20,7883,92968,180
21,3363,92168,366
21,8893,87668,457

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

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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