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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 AfghanistanThailandLuxembourg
22,20659,748433
22,46160,165438
22,50760,746443
23,60061,323448
25,00561,884454
25,69862,425460
26,33562,956467
27,15463,467474
27,38763,937482
27,70664,381491
28,48464,804500
29,12165,208509
29,75865,599521
30,42065,970533
31,10866,332547
31,82366,673560
32,56466,975571
33,33267,250586
34,12567,506599
34,94167,750610
35,97267,975623
37,03468,180633
38,12768,366643
39,25268,457651

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

Thailand

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

No separate list is published for Afghanistan, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.