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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 UgandaBurkina FasoIsrael
23,40811,0755,927
24,19511,4056,088
24,99211,8286,236
25,84612,3806,366
26,66112,8296,484
27,41413,1786,603
28,20013,5406,723
29,02113,9176,846
29,84614,3096,972
30,64714,7227,100
31,46915,1527,226
32,34315,6007,360
33,25716,0647,498
34,23416,5637,637
35,27117,0727,781
36,41917,5757,931
37,67318,0948,091
39,15718,6218,251
40,87919,1578,412
42,32919,6988,576
43,63920,2428,742
45,12020,7888,899
46,64521,3369,047
48,06521,8899,188

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Israel

  • 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

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