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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 RussiaBurkina FasoCambodia
147,21811,07512,122
146,60011,40512,317
145,98011,82812,504
145,31012,38012,691
144,65212,82912,881
144,07113,17813,076
143,52213,54013,276
143,05313,91713,461
142,80914,30913,630
142,74614,72213,808
142,78915,15213,990
142,85315,60014,162
142,96416,06414,322
143,20516,56314,480
143,51017,07214,637
146,09417,57514,793
146,41018,09414,994
146,67818,62115,238
146,84619,15715,480
146,83419,69815,717
146,76820,24215,944
146,46320,78816,149
145,84921,33616,338
146,69321,88916,514

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

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, Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.