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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Burkina FasoGreeceTurkmenistan
11,07510,6184,324
11,40510,6624,385
11,82810,7184,444
12,38010,7574,502
12,82910,7834,556
13,17810,8094,608
13,54010,8414,664
13,91710,8744,719
14,30910,9014,773
14,72210,9304,828
15,15210,9594,884
15,60010,9734,940
16,06410,9574,996
16,56310,8985,053
17,07210,8195,110
17,57510,7475,169
18,09410,6775,227
18,62110,6335,287
19,15710,6125,346
19,69810,5905,405
20,24210,5795,464
20,78810,5565,522
21,33610,4995,579
21,88910,4375,657

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

Greece

  • 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
  • 1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
  • 1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
  • 1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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