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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 FasoSouth Korea
11,07546,617
11,40547,008
11,82847,370
12,38047,645
12,82947,892
13,17848,083
13,54048,185
13,91748,438
14,30948,684
14,72249,055
15,15249,308
15,60049,554
16,06449,937
16,56350,200
17,07250,429
17,57550,747
18,09451,015
18,62151,218
19,15751,362
19,69851,585
20,24251,765
20,78851,836
21,33651,745
21,88951,731

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

South Korea

  • 1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
  • 1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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