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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 MoroccoBurkina FasoBrazil
28,40011,075174,320
28,74411,405176,902
29,09411,828179,389
29,44712,380181,721
29,80612,829183,970
30,16913,178186,165
30,55213,540188,330
30,95313,917190,438
31,35414,309192,450
31,75414,722194,458
32,15415,152196,464
32,55315,600198,408
32,95116,064200,152
33,34616,563201,894
33,73717,072203,614
34,12417,575205,358
34,51118,094207,148
34,89818,621208,859
35,27919,157210,537
35,65319,698212,258
36,01820,242213,940
36,37520,788215,577
36,72321,336216,720
37,10121,889217,718

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

Brazil

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
  • 1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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