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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IcelandDominicaBurkina FasoJordan
2777011,0754,591
2817111,4054,700
2857111,8284,811
2887212,3804,923
2897212,8295,037
2937213,1785,161
2967213,5405,295
3047213,9175,765
3117214,3096,243
3197314,7226,397
3197315,1526,538
3187315,6006,680
3197316,0646,840
3217316,5636,952
3247317,0727,706
3277317,5758,839
3317418,0949,506
3357418,6219,863
3437419,15710,066
3537419,69810,273
3617520,24210,480
3667520,78810,628
3727621,33610,716
3807621,88910,849

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

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.

Jordan

  • 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
  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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