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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 IndiaAzerbaijanBosnia & Herzegovina
1,000,9658,0563,811
1,018,6678,1273,901
1,036,2568,1943,919
1,053,6638,2573,923
1,070,8828,3193,940
1,087,9418,3913,975
1,104,8038,4753,991
1,121,3548,5653,993
1,137,5768,6573,990
1,153,5478,7503,987
1,169,2398,8423,985
1,184,6388,9333,983
1,199,8109,0253,980
1,214,8399,1173,977
1,229,7659,2103,973
1,244,5779,3023,968
1,259,2369,3933,963
1,273,6939,4813,957
1,287,9029,5673,951
1,301,8219,6493,944
1,315,5309,7273,937
1,329,0629,8023,929
1,339,9129,8743,921
1,349,0609,9183,876

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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