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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 BarbadosThailandOmanBelarus
27359,7482,34810,064
27460,1652,40310,034
27560,7462,45710,000
27661,3232,5109,955
27861,8842,5629,905
27962,4252,6139,856
28062,9562,6639,807
28163,4672,7139,764
28263,9372,7649,734
28364,3812,8169,713
28564,8042,8719,697
28665,2082,9289,681
28765,5992,9869,662
28865,9703,0479,643
28966,3323,1109,624
29066,6733,1749,605
29166,9753,2409,585
29167,2503,3079,564
29267,5063,3759,542
29367,7503,4449,519
29467,9753,5129,495
29468,1803,5829,469
29568,3663,6519,442
29568,4573,6969,400

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

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