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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 FasoSyria
11,07515,930
11,40516,329
11,82816,730
12,38017,132
12,82917,534
13,17817,942
13,54018,423
13,91719,252
14,30920,493
14,72221,221
15,15221,542
15,60022,050
16,06422,458
16,56322,258
17,07220,901
17,57519,318
18,09418,272
18,62117,669
19,15717,327
19,69817,601
20,24218,440
20,78819,241
21,33620,226
21,88920,985

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

Syria

  • 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

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