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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 BarbadosCongo - KinshasaOmanThailand
27351,1812,34859,748
27452,7822,40360,165
27554,4532,45760,746
27656,1702,51061,323
27857,8602,56261,884
27959,5992,61362,425
28061,4742,66362,956
28163,4792,71363,467
28265,5902,76463,937
28367,8002,81664,381
28570,1142,87164,804
28672,5502,92865,208
28775,1382,98665,599
28877,7923,04765,970
28980,5343,11066,332
29083,3683,17466,673
29186,2293,24066,975
29189,1933,30767,250
29292,2093,37567,506
29395,2323,44467,750
29498,3203,51267,975
294101,4993,58268,180
295104,7673,65168,366
295108,1713,69668,457

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.

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, Congo - Kinshasa, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.