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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	Benin	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	6,461	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	6,677	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	6,902	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,130	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,360	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,589	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,838	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,089	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,335	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,603	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,884	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,179	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,486	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,805	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,135	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,480	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,842	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,220	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,613	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	12,018	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	12,370	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	12,725	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	13,081	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	13,439	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

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