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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	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,460	59,748	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,499	60,165	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,554	60,746	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,610	61,323	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,665	61,884	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,721	62,425	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,777	62,956	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,853	63,467	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,954	63,937	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,036	64,381	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,082	64,804	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	4,097	65,208	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	4,115	65,599	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	4,206	65,970	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	4,696	66,332	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,365	66,673	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,640	66,975	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,688	67,250	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,680	67,506	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,562	67,750	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,331	67,975	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	4,986	68,180	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	4,802	68,366	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	4,713	68,457	2,559

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

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