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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	Thailand	Argentina	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	36,924	273
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	37,336	274
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	37,714	275
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	38,079	276
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	38,438	278
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	38,800	279
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	39,171	280
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	39,556	281
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	39,947	282
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	40,343	283
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	40,736	285
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	41,401	286
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	41,881	287
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	42,360	288
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	42,836	289
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	43,310	290
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	43,779	291
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	44,245	291
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	44,706	292
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	45,162	293
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	45,613	294
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	46,058	294
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	46,496	295
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	46,736	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

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

Argentina

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 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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