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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Thailand	United States
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	333,288

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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