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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 GhanaBurkina FasoIsrael
19,32711,0755,927
19,79211,4056,088
20,28011,8286,236
20,80612,3806,366
21,35012,8296,484
21,90013,1786,603
22,46913,5406,723
23,05813,9176,846
23,66114,3096,972
24,27014,7227,100
24,89915,1527,226
25,55915,6007,360
26,24416,0647,498
26,94516,5637,637
27,66417,0727,781
28,40517,5757,931
29,14618,0948,091
29,87918,6218,251
30,61719,1578,412
31,36219,6988,576
32,11120,2428,742
32,86420,7888,899
33,62221,3369,047
34,28021,8899,188

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

Ghana

  • 1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Israel

  • 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

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