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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 BarbadosDominicaThailandCongo - Kinshasa
2737059,74851,181
2747160,16552,782
2757160,74654,453
2767261,32356,170
2787261,88457,860
2797262,42559,599
2807262,95661,474
2817263,46763,479
2827263,93765,590
2837364,38167,800
2857364,80470,114
2867365,20872,550
2877365,59975,138
2887365,97077,792
2897366,33280,534
2907366,67383,368
2917466,97586,229
2917467,25089,193
2927467,50692,209
2937467,75095,232
2947567,97598,320
2947568,180101,499
2957668,366104,767
2957668,457108,171

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