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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 BarbadosSeychellesCongo - KinshasaThailand
2737851,18159,748
2747952,78260,165
2758054,45360,746
2768156,17061,323
2788257,86061,884
2798359,59962,425
2808461,47462,956
2818563,47963,467
2828665,59063,937
2838767,80064,381
2858770,11464,804
2868872,55065,208
2878975,13865,599
2889077,79265,970
2899180,53466,332
2909283,36866,673
2919286,22966,975
2919389,19367,250
2929492,20967,506
2939595,23267,750
2949698,32067,975
29497101,49968,180
29598104,76768,366
29598108,17168,457

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

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, Seychelles, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.