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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Thailand	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	59,748	273
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	60,165	274
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	60,746	275
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	61,323	276
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	61,884	278
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	62,425	279
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	62,956	280
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	63,467	281
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	63,937	282
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	64,381	283
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	64,804	285
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	65,208	286
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	65,599	287
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	65,970	288
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	66,332	289
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	66,673	290
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	66,975	291
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	67,250	291
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	67,506	292
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	67,750	293
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	67,975	294
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	68,180	294
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	68,366	295
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	68,457	295

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.

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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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.