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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 DominicaBurkina FasoThailand
7011,07559,748
7111,40560,165
7111,82860,746
7212,38061,323
7212,82961,884
7213,17862,425
7213,54062,956
7213,91763,467
7214,30963,937
7314,72264,381
7315,15264,804
7315,60065,208
7316,06465,599
7316,56365,970
7317,07266,332
7317,57566,673
7418,09466,975
7418,62167,250
7419,15767,506
7419,69867,750
7520,24267,975
7520,78868,180
7621,33668,366
7621,88968,457

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.

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