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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 BarbadosThailandRomaniaHonduras
27359,74822,4146,198
27460,16522,2626,367
27560,74622,1066,535
27661,32321,9316,698
27861,88421,8286,863
27962,42521,7047,028
28062,95621,5717,194
28163,46721,4437,359
28263,93721,1297,522
28364,38120,7797,682
28564,80420,6077,839
28665,20820,4857,991
28765,59920,3858,141
28865,97020,2968,288
28966,33220,2248,429
29066,67320,1518,546
29166,97520,0558,661
29167,25019,9388,770
29267,50619,8238,878
29367,75019,7139,002
29467,97519,6229,154
29468,18019,4969,304
29568,36619,3519,448
29568,45719,2669,590

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