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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 FasoThailandSeychelles
27311,07559,74878
27411,40560,16579
27511,82860,74680
27612,38061,32381
27812,82961,88482
27913,17862,42583
28013,54062,95684
28113,91763,46785
28214,30963,93786
28314,72264,38187
28515,15264,80487
28615,60065,20888
28716,06465,59989
28816,56365,97090
28917,07266,33291
29017,57566,67392
29118,09466,97592
29118,62167,25093
29219,15767,50694
29319,69867,75095
29420,24267,97596
29420,78868,18097
29521,33668,36698
29521,88968,45798

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