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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 BarbadosThailandOmanSingapore
27359,7482,3483,959
27460,1652,4034,028
27560,7462,4574,138
27661,3232,5104,176
27861,8842,5624,115
27962,4252,6134,167
28062,9562,6634,266
28163,4672,7134,401
28263,9372,7644,589
28364,3812,8164,839
28564,8042,8714,988
28665,2082,9285,077
28765,5992,9865,184
28865,9703,0475,312
28966,3323,1105,399
29066,6733,1745,470
29166,9753,2405,535
29167,2503,3075,607
29267,5063,3755,612
29367,7503,4445,639
29467,9753,5125,704
29468,1803,5825,686
29568,3663,6515,716
29568,4573,6965,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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