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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	Saudi Arabia	Burkina Faso	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,964	11,075	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	281	20,426	11,405	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,956	11,828	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,549	12,380	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,189	12,829	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,850	13,178	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,516	13,540	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	304	24,178	13,917	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	311	24,841	14,309	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,518	14,722	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,227	15,152	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,068	15,600	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,810	16,064	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,516	16,563	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,220	17,072	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,936	17,575	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	331	30,646	18,094	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	335	31,360	18,621	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	343	32,184	19,157	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	353	32,869	19,698	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	361	33,661	20,242	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	366	34,542	20,788	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,651	21,336	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,081	21,889	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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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