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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	El Salvador
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	5,767
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	5,825
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	5,856
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	5,869
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	5,880
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	5,888
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	5,899
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	5,906
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	5,911
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	5,934
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	5,954
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	5,967
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	5,984
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	6,033
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	6,121
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	6,179
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	6,205
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	6,248
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	6,304
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	6,368
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	6,372
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	6,385
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	6,407
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	6,429

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, El Salvador; the database as a whole is cited above.