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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 FasoIndia
23,40811,0751,000,965
24,19511,4051,018,667
24,99211,8281,036,256
25,84612,3801,053,663
26,66112,8291,070,882
27,41413,1781,087,941
28,20013,5401,104,803
29,02113,9171,121,354
29,84614,3091,137,576
30,64714,7221,153,547
31,46915,1521,169,239
32,34315,6001,184,638
33,25716,0641,199,810
34,23416,5631,214,839
35,27117,0721,229,765
36,41917,5751,244,577
37,67318,0941,259,236
39,15718,6211,273,693
40,87919,1571,287,902
42,32919,6981,301,821
43,63920,2421,315,530
45,12020,7881,329,062
46,64521,3361,339,912
48,06521,8891,349,060

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.

India

  • 1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
  • 1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
  • 1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
  • 1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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