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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 Burkina FasoThailandSeychelles
11,07559,74878
11,40560,16579
11,82860,74680
12,38061,32381
12,82961,88482
13,17862,42583
13,54062,95684
13,91763,46785
14,30963,93786
14,72264,38187
15,15264,80487
15,60065,20888
16,06465,59989
16,56365,97090
17,07266,33291
17,57566,67392
18,09466,97592
18,62167,25093
19,15767,50694
19,69867,75095
20,24267,97596
20,78868,18097
21,33668,36698
21,88968,45798

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 Burkina Faso, Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.