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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Germany	Burkina Faso	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	81,439	11,075	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	81,474	11,405	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	81,534	11,828	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	81,595	12,380	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	81,566	12,829	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	81,473	13,178	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	81,354	13,540	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	81,190	13,917	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	81,009	14,309	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	80,781	14,722	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	80,500	15,152	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	80,301	15,600	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	80,292	16,064	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	80,443	16,563	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	80,663	17,072	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	81,000	17,575	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	81,704	18,094	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	82,366	18,621	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	82,674	19,157	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	82,923	19,698	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	83,110	20,242	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	83,178	20,788	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	83,213	21,336	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	83,811	21,889	51,332

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.

All data sources

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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