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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 FasoSouth Korea
59,74811,07546,617
60,16511,40547,008
60,74611,82847,370
61,32312,38047,645
61,88412,82947,892
62,42513,17848,083
62,95613,54048,185
63,46713,91748,438
63,93714,30948,684
64,38114,72249,055
64,80415,15249,308
65,20815,60049,554
65,59916,06449,937
65,97016,56350,200
66,33217,07250,429
66,67317,57550,747
66,97518,09451,015
67,25018,62151,218
67,50619,15751,362
67,75019,69851,585
67,97520,24251,765
68,18020,78851,836
68,36621,33651,745
68,45721,88951,731

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

South Korea

  • 1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
  • 1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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