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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Bulgaria	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,091	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,052	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,798	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,755	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,710	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,668	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,628	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,587	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,549	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,513	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,475	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,425	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,242	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,200	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,160	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,119	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	7,074	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,024	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,973	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,923	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,874	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,833	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,778	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,720	68,457

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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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; the database as a whole is cited above.