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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	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	22,239

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

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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