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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	Tunisia
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	9,417
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	9,514
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	9,613
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	9,711
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	9,810
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	9,906
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	9,997
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	10,087
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	10,178
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	10,274
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	10,377
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	10,491
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	10,612
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	10,737
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	10,866
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	10,996
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	11,124
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	11,248
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	11,365
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	11,477
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	11,583
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	11,681
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	11,772
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	11,862

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