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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	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	10,200

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

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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