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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 BarbadosCyprusBurkina FasoThailand
27381811,07559,748
27482611,40560,165
27583511,82860,746
27684512,38061,323
27885512,82961,884
27986713,17862,425
28087913,54062,956
28189413,91763,467
28291314,30963,937
28393714,72264,381
28596215,15264,804
28698815,60065,208
2871,01316,06465,599
2881,02916,56365,970
2891,02617,07266,332
2901,01517,57566,673
2911,00918,09466,975
2911,01418,62167,250
2921,02319,15767,506
2931,03619,69867,750
2941,05020,24267,975
2941,06220,78868,180
2951,07221,33668,366
2951,08721,88968,457

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, Cyprus, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.