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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 FasoYemen
11,07516,728
11,40517,236
11,82817,762
12,38018,310
12,82918,855
13,17819,410
13,54020,000
13,91720,611
14,30921,236
14,72221,878
15,15222,533
15,60023,195
16,06423,880
16,56324,594
17,07225,311
17,57526,020
18,09426,698
18,62127,347
19,15727,985
19,69828,608
20,24229,216
20,78829,811
21,33630,399
21,88931,058

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

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