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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Burkina Faso	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	78	11,075	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	79	11,405	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	80	11,828	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	81	12,380	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	82	12,829	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	83	13,178	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	84	13,540	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	85	13,917	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	86	14,309	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	87	14,722	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	87	15,152	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	88	15,600	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	89	16,064	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	90	16,563	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	91	17,072	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	92	17,575	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	92	18,094	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	93	18,621	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	94	19,157	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	95	19,698	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	96	20,242	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	97	20,788	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	98	21,336	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	98	21,889	5,750

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

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 Seychelles, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.