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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 FasoUzbekistan
59,74811,07524,701
60,16511,40525,042
60,74611,82825,372
61,32312,38025,696
61,88412,82925,992
62,42513,17826,268
62,95613,54026,540
63,46713,91726,812
63,93714,30927,081
64,38114,72227,347
64,80415,15227,609
65,20815,60027,869
65,59916,06428,132
65,97016,56328,398
66,33217,07228,666
66,67317,57528,934
66,97518,09429,205
67,25018,62129,480
67,50619,15729,756
67,75019,69830,031
67,97520,24230,305
68,18020,78830,576
68,36621,33630,843
68,45721,88931,337

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