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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 FasoThailandCongo - Kinshasa
11,07559,74851,181
11,40560,16552,782
11,82860,74654,453
12,38061,32356,170
12,82961,88457,860
13,17862,42559,599
13,54062,95661,474
13,91763,46763,479
14,30963,93765,590
14,72264,38167,800
15,15264,80470,114
15,60065,20872,550
16,06465,59975,138
16,56365,97077,792
17,07266,33280,534
17,57566,67383,368
18,09466,97586,229
18,62167,25089,193
19,15767,50692,209
19,69867,75095,232
20,24267,97598,320
20,78868,180101,499
21,33668,366104,767
21,88968,457108,171

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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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

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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