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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	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	11,075	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	11,405	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	11,828	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	12,380	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	12,829	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	13,178	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	13,540	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	13,917	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	14,309	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	14,722	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	15,152	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	15,600	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	16,064	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	16,563	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	17,072	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	17,575	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	18,094	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	18,621	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	19,157	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	19,698	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	20,242	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	20,788	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	21,336	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	21,889	11,003

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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