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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 ThailandEcuadorBosnia & Herzegovina
59,74812,2683,811
60,16512,4463,901
60,74612,6293,919
61,32312,8273,923
61,88413,0743,940
62,42513,3683,975
62,95613,6613,991
63,46713,9153,993
63,93714,1333,990
64,38114,3523,987
64,80414,5693,985
65,20814,7863,983
65,59915,0023,980
65,97015,2183,977
66,33215,4333,973
66,67315,6473,968
66,97515,8603,963
67,25016,0723,957
67,50616,2823,951
67,75016,4893,944
67,97516,6933,937
68,18016,8943,929
68,36617,0933,921
68,45717,2883,876

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project