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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	Zambia
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	10,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	10,649
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	10,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	11,290
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	11,593
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	11,907
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	12,243
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	12,612
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	13,005
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	13,412
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	13,822
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	14,255
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	14,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	15,165
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	15,631
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	16,121
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	16,624
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	17,140
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	17,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	18,222
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	18,780
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	19,349
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	19,928
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	20,485

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

Zambia

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.