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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	Barbados	Croatia
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	273	4,377
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	274	4,334
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	275	4,171
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	276	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	278	4,176
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	279	4,179
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	280	4,182
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	281	4,183
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	282	4,183
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	283	4,181
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	285	4,177
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	286	4,167
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	287	4,154
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	288	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	289	4,126
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	290	4,109
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	291	4,081
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	291	4,047
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	292	4,006
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	293	3,968
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	294	3,945
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	294	3,925
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	295	3,839
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	295	3,790

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

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

Croatia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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