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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 EthiopiaBurkina FasoSaudi Arabia
63,57511,07519,964
65,21311,40520,426
66,88911,82820,956
68,64912,38021,549
70,49112,82922,189
72,38913,17822,850
74,32713,54023,516
76,32613,91724,178
78,41114,30924,841
80,56414,72225,518
82,78715,15226,227
85,09615,60027,068
87,53016,06427,810
90,06616,56328,516
92,63217,07229,220
95,33717,57529,936
98,11418,09430,646
100,85818,62131,360
103,65419,15732,184
106,46619,69832,869
109,26720,24233,661
112,10020,78834,542
114,96421,33633,651
117,92421,88934,081

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

Saudi Arabia

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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