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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 BarbadosDjiboutiBurkina FasoThailand
27364611,07559,748
27466911,40560,165
27569311,82860,746
27671612,38061,323
27869112,82961,884
27965713,17862,425
28066613,54062,956
28167913,91763,467
28269414,30963,937
28370914,72264,381
28572515,15264,804
28674115,60065,208
28775716,06465,599
28877416,56365,970
28979217,07266,332
29081017,57566,673
29182818,09466,975
29184718,62167,250
29286519,15767,506
29388419,69867,750
29489820,24267,975
29491220,78868,180
29592421,33668,366
29593721,88968,457

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