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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 BarbadosThailandOmanCongo - Kinshasa
27359,7482,34851,181
27460,1652,40352,782
27560,7462,45754,453
27661,3232,51056,170
27861,8842,56257,860
27962,4252,61359,599
28062,9562,66361,474
28163,4672,71363,479
28263,9372,76465,590
28364,3812,81667,800
28564,8042,87170,114
28665,2082,92872,550
28765,5992,98675,138
28865,9703,04777,792
28966,3323,11080,534
29066,6733,17483,368
29166,9753,24086,229
29167,2503,30789,193
29267,5063,37592,209
29367,7503,44495,232
29467,9753,51298,320
29468,1803,582101,499
29568,3663,651104,767
29568,4573,696108,171

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.