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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 & HerzegovinaYemenThailand
3,81116,72859,748
3,90117,23660,165
3,91917,76260,746
3,92318,31061,323
3,94018,85561,884
3,97519,41062,425
3,99120,00062,956
3,99320,61163,467
3,99021,23663,937
3,98721,87864,381
3,98522,53364,804
3,98323,19565,208
3,98023,88065,599
3,97724,59465,970
3,97325,31166,332
3,96826,02066,673
3,96326,69866,975
3,95727,34767,250
3,95127,98567,506
3,94428,60867,750
3,93729,21667,975
3,92929,81168,180
3,92130,39968,366
3,87631,05868,457

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.