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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 DominicaParaguayThailand
705,36659,748
715,47360,165
715,57960,746
725,68361,323
725,78661,884
725,88662,425
725,98462,956
726,08063,467
726,17363,937
736,26464,381
736,35264,804
736,43865,208
736,52265,599
736,60565,970
736,68866,332
736,76966,673
746,85066,975
746,93067,250
747,01267,506
747,09567,750
757,17967,975
757,26368,180
767,34868,366
767,43268,457

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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.