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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 FasoSão Tomé & PríncipeCongo - Kinshasa
11,07513851,181
11,40514152,782
11,82814454,453
12,38014756,170
12,82915157,860
13,17815459,599
13,54015861,474
13,91716163,479
14,30916565,590
14,72216867,800
15,15217270,114
15,60017672,550
16,06418075,138
16,56318377,792
17,07218780,534
17,57519083,368
18,09419486,229
18,62119889,193
19,15720192,209
19,69820495,232
20,24220898,320
20,788212101,499
21,336216104,767
21,889220108,171

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.

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GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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