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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 SenegalBurkina FasoJordan
10,07011,0754,591
10,30511,4054,700
10,57611,8284,811
10,86412,3804,923
11,17212,8295,037
11,49813,1785,161
11,83913,5405,295
12,20413,9175,765
12,58414,3096,243
12,97814,7226,397
13,38215,1526,538
13,79415,6006,680
14,22616,0646,840
14,66816,5636,952
15,12117,0727,706
15,58917,5758,839
16,06618,0949,506
16,54918,6219,863
17,04419,15710,066
17,53519,69810,273
18,02120,24210,480
18,51820,78810,628
19,01621,33610,716
19,51221,88910,849

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

Jordan

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