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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 FasoIndia
11,0751,000,965
11,4051,018,667
11,8281,036,256
12,3801,053,663
12,8291,070,882
13,1781,087,941
13,5401,104,803
13,9171,121,354
14,3091,137,576
14,7221,153,547
15,1521,169,239
15,6001,184,638
16,0641,199,810
16,5631,214,839
17,0721,229,765
17,5751,244,577
18,0941,259,236
18,6211,273,693
19,1571,287,902
19,6981,301,821
20,2421,315,530
20,7881,329,062
21,3361,339,912
21,8891,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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