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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 FasoEgyptPuerto Rico
11,07566,0013,800
11,40567,3773,811
11,82868,7903,819
12,38070,2693,824
12,82971,7853,826
13,17873,2983,827
13,54074,8323,822
13,91776,4323,805
14,30978,1403,783
14,72279,9453,761
15,15281,8403,741
15,60083,8443,722
16,06485,9693,679
16,56388,1983,636
17,07290,5663,589
17,57593,0093,534
18,09495,4323,473
18,62197,8823,411
19,157100,3033,352
19,698102,6173,295
20,242104,8163,268
20,788106,8933,247
21,336108,8713,232
21,889110,5933,228

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

Egypt

  • 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
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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