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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 FasoJapan
10,07011,075126,512
10,30511,405126,755
10,57611,828127,056
10,86412,380127,324
11,17212,829127,558
11,49813,178127,658
11,83913,540127,679
12,20413,917127,762
12,58414,309127,904
12,97814,722127,969
13,38215,152127,958
13,79415,600127,967
14,22616,064127,755
14,66816,563127,476
15,12117,072127,257
15,58917,575127,186
16,06618,094127,034
16,54918,621126,857
17,04419,157126,631
17,53519,698126,368
18,02120,242126,092
18,51820,788125,634
19,01621,336125,427
19,51221,889124,762

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

Japan

  • 724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
  • 1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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