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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	Burkina Faso	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	10,099

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

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