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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosThailandMoldovaEgypt
27359,7484,24466,001
27460,1654,19967,377
27560,7464,15468,790
27661,3234,10870,269
27861,8844,05971,785
27962,4254,01373,298
28062,9563,96674,832
28163,4673,91976,432
28263,9373,87378,140
28364,3813,82979,945
28564,8043,78881,840
28665,2083,74883,844
28765,5993,70985,969
28865,9703,67188,198
28966,3323,63390,566
29066,6733,59593,009
29166,9753,55895,432
29167,2503,52297,882
29267,5063,485100,303
29367,7503,448102,617
29467,9753,412104,816
29468,1803,376106,893
29568,3663,339108,871
29568,4573,570110,593

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

Egypt

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.