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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosSierra LeoneThailand
2733,73659,748
2743,80960,165
2754,04360,746
2764,28761,323
2784,46661,884
2794,60262,425
2804,70862,956
2814,81863,467
2824,91863,937
2835,02364,381
2855,13264,804
2865,24665,208
2875,36465,599
2885,48665,970
2895,61366,332
2905,74466,673
2915,87966,975
2916,01967,250
2926,16367,506
2936,31267,750
2946,46167,975
2946,61168,180
2956,76168,366
2956,91068,457

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.