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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	3,460	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	3,499	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	3,554	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	3,610	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	3,665	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	3,721	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	3,777	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	3,853	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	3,954	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	4,036	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	4,082	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	4,097	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	4,115	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	4,206	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	4,696	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	5,365	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	5,640	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	5,688	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	5,680	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	5,562	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	5,331	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	4,986	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	4,802	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	4,713	530

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

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, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.