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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	Nepal	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,087	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,487	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,887	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,273	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,645	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	24,989	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,255	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	25,484	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	25,732	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,998	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,298	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	26,664	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,081	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	27,505	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	27,917	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	28,311	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	28,678	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,034	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,384	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	29,718	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	30,057	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	30,595	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	31,311	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	31,845	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.

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