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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosMontenegroBurkina FasoThailand
27362311,07559,748
27462311,40560,165
27562311,82860,746
27662212,38061,323
27862112,82961,884
27962113,17862,425
28062113,54062,956
28162013,91763,467
28262014,30963,937
28362114,72264,381
28562215,15264,804
28662315,60065,208
28762216,06465,599
28862216,56365,970
28962217,07266,332
29062117,57566,673
29162018,09466,975
29161818,62167,250
29261619,15767,506
29361419,69867,750
29461320,24267,975
29461220,78868,180
29561121,33668,366
29561021,88968,457

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.

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

Montenegro

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.