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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 EcuadorBurkina FasoMyanmar (Burma)
12,26811,07545,018
12,44611,40545,616
12,62911,82846,171
12,82712,38046,690
13,07412,82947,201
13,36813,17847,699
13,66113,54048,196
13,91513,91748,674
14,13314,30949,151
14,35214,72249,505
14,56915,15249,896
14,78615,60050,285
15,00216,06450,813
15,21816,56351,369
15,43317,07251,878
15,64717,57552,374
15,86018,09452,900
16,07218,62153,416
16,28219,15753,914
16,48919,69854,403
16,69320,24254,884
16,89420,78855,355
17,09321,33655,815
17,28821,88956,210

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Myanmar (Burma)

  • 1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
  • 1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

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