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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 FasoSwitzerlandEstonia
11,0757,2581,378
11,4057,2961,400
11,8287,3321,391
12,3807,3841,382
12,8297,4381,374
13,1787,4881,365
13,5407,5321,357
13,9177,5791,349
14,3097,6471,341
14,7227,7381,337
15,1527,8251,334
15,6007,8841,332
16,0647,9591,328
16,5638,0441,324
17,0728,1371,319
17,5758,2371,314
18,0948,3321,312
18,6218,4231,314
19,1578,5021,314
19,6988,5651,318
20,2428,6261,323
20,7888,6891,327
21,3368,7561,329
21,8898,8341,330

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

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, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.