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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	Dominica	Barbados	Romania	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	70	273	22,414	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	71	274	22,262	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	71	275	22,106	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	72	276	21,931	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	72	278	21,828	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	72	279	21,704	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	72	280	21,571	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	72	281	21,443	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	72	282	21,129	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	73	283	20,779	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	73	285	20,607	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	73	286	20,485	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	73	287	20,385	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	73	288	20,296	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	73	289	20,224	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	73	290	20,151	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	74	291	20,055	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	74	291	19,938	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	74	292	19,823	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	74	293	19,713	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	75	294	19,622	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	75	294	19,496	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	76	295	19,351	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	76	295	19,266	68,457

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.