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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 FasoThailandDjibouti
27311,07559,748646
27411,40560,165669
27511,82860,746693
27612,38061,323716
27812,82961,884691
27913,17862,425657
28013,54062,956666
28113,91763,467679
28214,30963,937694
28314,72264,381709
28515,15264,804725
28615,60065,208741
28716,06465,599757
28816,56365,970774
28917,07266,332792
29017,57566,673810
29118,09466,975828
29118,62167,250847
29219,15767,506865
29319,69867,750884
29420,24267,975898
29420,78868,180912
29521,33668,366924
29521,88968,457937

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, Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.