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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	France	Albania	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	60,396	3,085	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,811	3,065	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	61,255	3,047	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,703	3,038	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	62,141	3,026	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,600	3,014	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	63,073	2,998	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,513	2,979	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,906	2,957	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,264	2,934	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,594	2,915	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	64,913	2,900	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,231	2,892	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,552	2,888	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	65,891	2,882	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,212	2,876	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,480	2,868	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	66,730	2,863	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,015	2,861	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,347	2,854	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,660	2,842	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	67,901	2,825	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,114	2,799	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,387	2,787	68,457

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

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.