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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 BarbadosThailandUganda
27359,74823,408
27460,16524,195
27560,74624,992
27661,32325,846
27861,88426,661
27962,42527,414
28062,95628,200
28163,46729,021
28263,93729,846
28364,38130,647
28564,80431,469
28665,20832,343
28765,59933,257
28865,97034,234
28966,33235,271
29066,67336,419
29166,97537,673
29167,25039,157
29267,50640,879
29367,75042,329
29467,97543,639
29468,18045,120
29568,36646,645
29568,45748,065

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

Uganda

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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