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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 BrazilBurkina FasoCyprus
174,32011,075818
176,90211,405826
179,38911,828835
181,72112,380845
183,97012,829855
186,16513,178867
188,33013,540879
190,43813,917894
192,45014,309913
194,45814,722937
196,46415,152962
198,40815,600988
200,15216,0641,013
201,89416,5631,029
203,61417,0721,026
205,35817,5751,015
207,14818,0941,009
208,85918,6211,014
210,53719,1571,023
212,25819,6981,036
213,94020,2421,050
215,57720,7881,062
216,72021,3361,072
217,71821,8891,087

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: 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)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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