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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	Iceland	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	277	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	281	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	285	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	288	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	289	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	293	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	296	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	304	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	311	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	319	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	319	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	318	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	319	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	321	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	324	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	327	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	331	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	335	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	343	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	353	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	361	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	366	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	372	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	380	124,762

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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