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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosHondurasThailand
2736,19859,748
2746,36760,165
2756,53560,746
2766,69861,323
2786,86361,884
2797,02862,425
2807,19462,956
2817,35963,467
2827,52263,937
2837,68264,381
2857,83964,804
2867,99165,208
2878,14165,599
2888,28865,970
2898,42966,332
2908,54666,673
2918,66166,975
2918,77067,250
2928,87867,506
2939,00267,750
2949,15467,975
2949,30468,180
2959,44868,366
2959,59068,457

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.

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