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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 FasoTurkmenistan
59,74811,0754,324
60,16511,4054,385
60,74611,8284,444
61,32312,3804,502
61,88412,8294,556
62,42513,1784,608
62,95613,5404,664
63,46713,9174,719
63,93714,3094,773
64,38114,7224,828
64,80415,1524,884
65,20815,6004,940
65,59916,0644,996
65,97016,5635,053
66,33217,0725,110
66,67317,5755,169
66,97518,0945,227
67,25018,6215,287
67,50619,1575,346
67,75019,6985,405
67,97520,2425,464
68,18020,7885,522
68,36621,3365,579
68,45721,8895,657

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, Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.