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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	Iceland	Burkina Faso	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	11,003

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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