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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 FasoSwitzerlandParaguay
11,0757,2585,366
11,4057,2965,473
11,8287,3325,579
12,3807,3845,683
12,8297,4385,786
13,1787,4885,886
13,5407,5325,984
13,9177,5796,080
14,3097,6476,173
14,7227,7386,264
15,1527,8256,352
15,6007,8846,438
16,0647,9596,522
16,5638,0446,605
17,0728,1376,688
17,5758,2376,769
18,0948,3326,850
18,6218,4236,930
19,1578,5027,012
19,6988,5657,095
20,2428,6267,179
20,7888,6897,263
21,3368,7567,348
21,8898,8347,432

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