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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	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	12,060

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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