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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 DominicaThailandRomaniaBarbados
7059,74822,414273
7160,16522,262274
7160,74622,106275
7261,32321,931276
7261,88421,828278
7262,42521,704279
7262,95621,571280
7263,46721,443281
7263,93721,129282
7364,38120,779283
7364,80420,607285
7365,20820,485286
7365,59920,385287
7365,97020,296288
7366,33220,224289
7366,67320,151290
7466,97520,055291
7467,25019,938291
7467,50619,823292
7467,75019,713293
7567,97519,622294
7568,18019,496294
7668,36619,351295
7668,45719,266295

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

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.

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