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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	Dominica	Thailand	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	59,748	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	60,165	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	60,746	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	61,323	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	61,884	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	62,425	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	62,956	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	63,467	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	63,937	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	64,381	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	64,804	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	65,208	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	65,599	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	65,970	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	66,332	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	66,673	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	66,975	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	67,250	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	67,506	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	67,750	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	67,975	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	68,180	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	68,366	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	68,457	3,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Barbados, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.