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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 FasoOmanBrazil
11,0752,348174,320
11,4052,403176,902
11,8282,457179,389
12,3802,510181,721
12,8292,562183,970
13,1782,613186,165
13,5402,663188,330
13,9172,713190,438
14,3092,764192,450
14,7222,816194,458
15,1522,871196,464
15,6002,928198,408
16,0642,986200,152
16,5633,047201,894
17,0723,110203,614
17,5753,174205,358
18,0943,240207,148
18,6213,307208,859
19,1573,375210,537
19,6983,444212,258
20,2423,512213,940
20,7883,582215,577
21,3363,651216,720
21,8893,696217,718

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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