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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 SeychellesBurkina FasoEgypt
7811,07566,001
7911,40567,377
8011,82868,790
8112,38070,269
8212,82971,785
8313,17873,298
8413,54074,832
8513,91776,432
8614,30978,140
8714,72279,945
8715,15281,840
8815,60083,844
8916,06485,969
9016,56388,198
9117,07290,566
9217,57593,009
9218,09495,432
9318,62197,882
9419,157100,303
9519,698102,617
9620,242104,816
9720,788106,893
9821,336108,871
9821,889110,593

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

Egypt

  • 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
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 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

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