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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	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	7,169

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

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