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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaBarbadosBurkina FasoThailand
7027311,07559,748
7127411,40560,165
7127511,82860,746
7227612,38061,323
7227812,82961,884
7227913,17862,425
7228013,54062,956
7228113,91763,467
7228214,30963,937
7328314,72264,381
7328515,15264,804
7328615,60065,208
7328716,06465,599
7328816,56365,970
7328917,07266,332
7329017,57566,673
7429118,09466,975
7429118,62167,250
7429219,15767,506
7429319,69867,750
7529420,24267,975
7529420,78868,180
7629521,33668,366
7629521,88968,457

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

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