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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 FasoLebanonPhilippines
11,0753,46079,346
11,4053,49981,131
11,8283,55483,023
12,3803,61084,876
12,8293,66586,697
13,1783,72188,568
13,5403,77790,418
13,9173,85392,253
14,3093,95494,098
14,7224,03695,923
15,1524,08297,627
15,6004,09799,317
16,0644,115100,999
16,5634,206102,618
17,0724,696104,299
17,5755,365106,076
18,0945,640107,868
18,6215,688109,493
19,1575,680111,094
19,6985,562112,843
20,2425,331114,636
20,7884,986117,026
21,3364,802119,473
21,8894,713121,234

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

Lebanon

  • 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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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