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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 CambodiaBurkina FasoSingapore
12,12211,0753,959
12,31711,4054,028
12,50411,8284,138
12,69112,3804,176
12,88112,8294,115
13,07613,1784,167
13,27613,5404,266
13,46113,9174,401
13,63014,3094,589
13,80814,7224,839
13,99015,1524,988
14,16215,6005,077
14,32216,0645,184
14,48016,5635,312
14,63717,0725,399
14,79317,5755,470
14,99418,0945,535
15,23818,6215,607
15,48019,1575,612
15,71719,6985,639
15,94420,2425,704
16,14920,7885,686
16,33821,3365,716
16,51421,8895,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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