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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 FasoSwitzerlandLuxembourg
11,0757,258433
11,4057,296438
11,8287,332443
12,3807,384448
12,8297,438454
13,1787,488460
13,5407,532467
13,9177,579474
14,3097,647482
14,7227,738491
15,1527,825500
15,6007,884509
16,0647,959521
16,5638,044533
17,0728,137547
17,5758,237560
18,0948,332571
18,6218,423586
19,1578,502599
19,6988,565610
20,2428,626623
20,7888,689633
21,3368,756643
21,8898,834651

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