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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IcelandPolandBurkina Faso
27738,35811,075
28138,34411,405
28538,33911,828
28838,32012,380
28938,28312,829
29338,26813,178
29638,24913,540
30438,22013,917
31138,20414,309
31938,20414,722
31938,57215,152
31838,60615,600
31938,61516,064
32138,62316,563
32438,59117,072
32738,57317,575
33138,54418,094
33538,51618,621
34338,51119,157
35338,50219,698
36138,47520,242
36638,44320,788
37238,25021,336
38037,91421,889

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.

Poland

  • 1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
  • 1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
  • 1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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