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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 BarbadosThailandRomaniaDominica
27359,74822,41470
27460,16522,26271
27560,74622,10671
27661,32321,93172
27861,88421,82872
27962,42521,70472
28062,95621,57172
28163,46721,44372
28263,93721,12972
28364,38120,77973
28564,80420,60773
28665,20820,48573
28765,59920,38573
28865,97020,29673
28966,33220,22473
29066,67320,15173
29166,97520,05574
29167,25019,93874
29267,50619,82374
29367,75019,71374
29467,97519,62275
29468,18019,49675
29568,36619,35176
29568,45719,26676

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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