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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	Montenegro	Oman	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	623	2,348	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	623	2,403	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	623	2,457	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	622	2,510	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	621	2,562	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	621	2,613	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	621	2,663	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	620	2,713	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	620	2,764	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	621	2,816	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	622	2,871	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	623	2,928	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	622	2,986	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	622	3,047	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	622	3,110	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	621	3,174	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	620	3,240	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	618	3,307	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	616	3,375	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	614	3,444	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	613	3,512	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	612	3,582	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	611	3,651	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	610	3,696	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.

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