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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	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	11,075	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	11,405	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	11,828	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	12,380	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	12,829	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	13,178	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	13,540	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	13,917	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	14,309	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	14,722	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	15,152	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	15,600	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	16,064	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	16,563	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	17,072	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	17,575	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	18,094	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	18,621	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	19,157	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	19,698	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	20,242	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	20,788	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	21,336	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	21,889	68,387

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

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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