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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	Sierra Leone	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	70	3,736	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	71	3,809	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	71	4,043	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	72	4,287	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	72	4,466	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	72	4,602	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	72	4,708	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	72	4,818	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	72	4,918	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	73	5,023	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	73	5,132	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	73	5,246	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	73	5,364	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	73	5,486	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	73	5,613	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	73	5,744	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	74	5,879	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	74	6,019	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	74	6,163	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	74	6,312	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	75	6,461	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	75	6,611	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	76	6,761	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	76	6,910	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

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.