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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	Lebanon	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	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

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.