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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosThailandParaguay
27359,7485,366
27460,1655,473
27560,7465,579
27661,3235,683
27861,8845,786
27962,4255,886
28062,9565,984
28163,4676,080
28263,9376,173
28364,3816,264
28564,8046,352
28665,2086,438
28765,5996,522
28865,9706,605
28966,3326,688
29066,6736,769
29166,9756,850
29167,2506,930
29267,5067,012
29367,7507,095
29467,9757,179
29468,1807,263
29568,3667,348
29568,4577,432

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