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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	United States	Burkina Faso	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	279,040	11,075	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	282,162	11,405	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	284,969	11,828	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	287,625	12,380	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	290,108	12,829	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	292,805	13,178	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	295,517	13,540	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	298,380	13,917	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	301,231	14,309	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	304,094	14,722	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	306,772	15,152	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	309,327	15,600	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	311,583	16,064	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	313,878	16,563	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	316,060	17,072	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	318,386	17,575	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	320,739	18,094	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	323,072	18,621	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	325,122	19,157	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	326,838	19,698	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	328,330	20,242	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	331,512	20,788	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	332,032	21,336	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	333,288	21,889	8,834

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.

All data sources

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;

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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