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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Burkina FasoOmanEcuadorCongo - Kinshasa
11,0752,34812,26851,181
11,4052,40312,44652,782
11,8282,45712,62954,453
12,3802,51012,82756,170
12,8292,56213,07457,860
13,1782,61313,36859,599
13,5402,66313,66161,474
13,9172,71313,91563,479
14,3092,76414,13365,590
14,7222,81614,35267,800
15,1522,87114,56970,114
15,6002,92814,78672,550
16,0642,98615,00275,138
16,5633,04715,21877,792
17,0723,11015,43380,534
17,5753,17415,64783,368
18,0943,24015,86086,229
18,6213,30716,07289,193
19,1573,37516,28292,209
19,6983,44416,48995,232
20,2423,51216,69398,320
20,7883,58216,894101,499
21,3363,65117,093104,767
21,8893,69617,288108,171

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.

All data sources

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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