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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaThailandYemen
3,81159,74816,728
3,90160,16517,236
3,91960,74617,762
3,92361,32318,310
3,94061,88418,855
3,97562,42519,410
3,99162,95620,000
3,99363,46720,611
3,99063,93721,236
3,98764,38121,878
3,98564,80422,533
3,98365,20823,195
3,98065,59923,880
3,97765,97024,594
3,97366,33225,311
3,96866,67326,020
3,96366,97526,698
3,95767,25027,347
3,95167,50627,985
3,94467,75028,608
3,93767,97529,216
3,92968,18029,811
3,92168,36630,399
3,87668,45731,058

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.