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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 FasoSingapore
19,96411,0753,959
20,42611,4054,028
20,95611,8284,138
21,54912,3804,176
22,18912,8294,115
22,85013,1784,167
23,51613,5404,266
24,17813,9174,401
24,84114,3094,589
25,51814,7224,839
26,22715,1524,988
27,06815,6005,077
27,81016,0645,184
28,51616,5635,312
29,22017,0725,399
29,93617,5755,470
30,64618,0945,535
31,36018,6215,607
32,18419,1575,612
32,86919,6985,639
33,66120,2425,704
34,54220,7885,686
33,65121,3365,716
34,08121,8895,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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