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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	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	11,075	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	11,405	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	11,828	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	12,380	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	12,829	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	13,178	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	13,540	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	13,917	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	14,309	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	14,722	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	15,152	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	15,600	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	16,064	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	16,563	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	17,072	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	17,575	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	18,094	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	18,621	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	19,157	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	19,698	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	20,242	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	20,788	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	21,336	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	21,889	4,713

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.

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

Lebanon

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

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.