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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Japan	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	126,512	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	126,755	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	127,056	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	127,324	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	127,558	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	127,658	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	127,679	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	127,762	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	127,904	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	127,969	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	127,958	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	127,967	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	127,755	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	127,476	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	127,257	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	127,186	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	127,034	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	126,857	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	126,631	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	126,368	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	126,092	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	125,634	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	125,427	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	124,762	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.

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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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.