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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	Malta	Thailand	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	387	59,748	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	390	60,165	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	393	60,746	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	396	61,323	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	398	61,884	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	401	62,425	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	404	62,956	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	405	63,467	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	406	63,937	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	409	64,381	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	412	64,804	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	414	65,208	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	416	65,599	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	420	65,970	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	426	66,332	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	435	66,673	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	445	66,975	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	455	67,250	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	468	67,506	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	485	67,750	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	504	67,975	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	516	68,180	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	518	68,366	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	530	68,457	11,695

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

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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.