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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	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	31,845

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