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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Australia
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	18,692
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	18,907
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	19,151
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	19,371
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	19,595
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	19,805
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	20,048
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	20,320
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	20,694
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	21,113
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	21,553
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	21,891
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	22,197
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	22,588
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	22,980
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	23,326
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	23,664
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	24,036
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	24,445
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	24,823
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	25,204
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	25,529
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	25,574
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	25,826

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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