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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ThailandBurkina FasoIndonesia
59,74811,075208,105
60,16511,405211,408
60,74611,828214,475
61,32312,380217,516
61,88412,829220,549
62,42513,178224,473
62,95613,540227,534
63,46713,917230,739
63,93714,309233,918
64,38114,722237,056
64,80415,152240,140
65,20815,600243,171
65,59916,064246,150
65,97016,563249,086
66,33217,072251,947
66,67317,575254,702
66,97518,094257,351
67,25018,621259,906
67,50619,157262,379
67,75019,698264,789
67,97520,242267,142
68,18020,788269,437
68,36621,336271,674
68,45721,889273,409

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

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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