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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 LuxembourgBurkina FasoIndia
43311,0751,000,965
43811,4051,018,667
44311,8281,036,256
44812,3801,053,663
45412,8291,070,882
46013,1781,087,941
46713,5401,104,803
47413,9171,121,354
48214,3091,137,576
49114,7221,153,547
50015,1521,169,239
50915,6001,184,638
52116,0641,199,810
53316,5631,214,839
54717,0721,229,765
56017,5751,244,577
57118,0941,259,236
58618,6211,273,693
59919,1571,287,902
61019,6981,301,821
62320,2421,315,530
63320,7881,329,062
64321,3361,339,912
65121,8891,349,060

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

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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