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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	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	34,081

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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