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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	Iceland	Colombia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,365	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,911	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	285	39,411	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	288	39,918	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	289	40,416	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	293	40,899	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	296	41,374	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	304	41,862	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	311	42,324	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	319	42,781	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	319	43,264	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	318	43,771	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	319	44,225	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,660	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,081	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	327	45,846	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	331	46,290	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	335	46,796	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	343	47,385	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	353	48,222	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	361	49,326	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	366	50,283	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	372	50,978	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,332	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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