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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosBurkina FasoThailandCyprus
27311,07559,748818
27411,40560,165826
27511,82860,746835
27612,38061,323845
27812,82961,884855
27913,17862,425867
28013,54062,956879
28113,91763,467894
28214,30963,937913
28314,72264,381937
28515,15264,804962
28615,60065,208988
28716,06465,5991,013
28816,56365,9701,029
28917,07266,3321,026
29017,57566,6731,015
29118,09466,9751,009
29118,62167,2501,014
29219,15767,5061,023
29319,69867,7501,036
29420,24267,9751,050
29420,78868,1801,062
29521,33668,3661,072
29521,88968,4571,087

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.

All data sources

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 Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cyprus; the database as a whole is cited above.