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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 Saudi ArabiaBurkina FasoSwitzerland
19,96411,0757,258
20,42611,4057,296
20,95611,8287,332
21,54912,3807,384
22,18912,8297,438
22,85013,1787,488
23,51613,5407,532
24,17813,9177,579
24,84114,3097,647
25,51814,7227,738
26,22715,1527,825
27,06815,6007,884
27,81016,0647,959
28,51616,5638,044
29,22017,0728,137
29,93617,5758,237
30,64618,0948,332
31,36018,6218,423
32,18419,1578,502
32,86919,6988,565
33,66120,2428,626
34,54220,7888,689
33,65121,3368,756
34,08121,8898,834

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

Saudi Arabia

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Switzerland

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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