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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 FasoUganda
147,21811,07523,408
146,60011,40524,195
145,98011,82824,992
145,31012,38025,846
144,65212,82926,661
144,07113,17827,414
143,52213,54028,200
143,05313,91729,021
142,80914,30929,846
142,74614,72230,647
142,78915,15231,469
142,85315,60032,343
142,96416,06433,257
143,20516,56334,234
143,51017,07235,271
146,09417,57536,419
146,41018,09437,673
146,67818,62139,157
146,84619,15740,879
146,83419,69842,329
146,76820,24243,639
146,46320,78845,120
145,84921,33646,645
146,69321,88948,065

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.

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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