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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 BarbadosThailandSenegal
27359,74810,070
27460,16510,305
27560,74610,576
27661,32310,864
27861,88411,172
27962,42511,498
28062,95611,839
28163,46712,204
28263,93712,584
28364,38112,978
28564,80413,382
28665,20813,794
28765,59914,226
28865,97014,668
28966,33215,121
29066,67315,589
29166,97516,066
29167,25016,549
29267,50617,044
29367,75017,535
29467,97518,021
29468,18018,518
29568,36619,016
29568,45719,512

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