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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 IcelandRussiaBurkina Faso
277147,21811,075
281146,60011,405
285145,98011,828
288145,31012,380
289144,65212,829
293144,07113,178
296143,52213,540
304143,05313,917
311142,80914,309
319142,74614,722
319142,78915,152
318142,85315,600
319142,96416,064
321143,20516,563
324143,51017,072
327146,09417,575
331146,41018,094
335146,67818,621
343146,84619,157
353146,83419,698
361146,76820,242
366146,46320,788
372145,84921,336
380146,69321,889

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.

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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