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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 BarbadosSenegalThailand
27310,07059,748
27410,30560,165
27510,57660,746
27610,86461,323
27811,17261,884
27911,49862,425
28011,83962,956
28112,20463,467
28212,58463,937
28312,97864,381
28513,38264,804
28613,79465,208
28714,22665,599
28814,66865,970
28915,12166,332
29015,58966,673
29116,06666,975
29116,54967,250
29217,04467,506
29317,53567,750
29418,02167,975
29418,51868,180
29519,01668,366
29519,51268,457

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