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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 BarbadosSt. LuciaThailand
27315259,748
27415360,165
27515460,746
27615561,323
27815661,884
27915762,425
28015762,956
28115863,467
28215963,937
28316064,381
28516064,804
28616165,208
28716265,599
28816265,970
28916366,332
29016366,673
29116466,975
29116467,250
29216567,506
29316667,750
29416667,975
29416768,180
29516768,366
29516768,457

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, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.