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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 CubaBurkina FasoCongo - Kinshasa
11,10811,07551,181
11,14711,40552,782
11,17911,82854,453
11,21012,38056,170
11,24112,82957,860
11,26013,17859,599
11,26813,54061,474
11,26613,91763,479
11,26114,30965,590
11,25814,72267,800
11,26015,15270,114
11,26215,60072,550
11,26416,06475,138
11,26216,56377,792
11,25017,07280,534
11,23817,57583,368
11,21418,09486,229
11,18018,62189,193
11,14719,15792,209
11,11619,69895,232
11,10520,24298,320
11,08920,788101,499
11,04621,336104,767
11,00321,889108,171

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

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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