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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	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	4,713

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

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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