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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 FranceBurkina FasoRussia
60,39611,075147,218
60,81111,405146,600
61,25511,828145,980
61,70312,380145,310
62,14112,829144,652
62,60013,178144,071
63,07313,540143,522
63,51313,917143,053
63,90614,309142,809
64,26414,722142,746
64,59415,152142,789
64,91315,600142,853
65,23116,064142,964
65,55216,563143,205
65,89117,072143,510
66,21217,575146,094
66,48018,094146,410
66,73018,621146,678
67,01519,157146,846
67,34719,698146,834
67,66020,242146,768
67,90120,788146,463
68,11421,336145,849
68,38721,889146,693

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

France

  • 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
  • 1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
  • 1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
  • 1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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