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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 ThailandEcuadorIsrael
59,74812,2685,927
60,16512,4466,088
60,74612,6296,236
61,32312,8276,366
61,88413,0746,484
62,42513,3686,603
62,95613,6616,723
63,46713,9156,846
63,93714,1336,972
64,38114,3527,100
64,80414,5697,226
65,20814,7867,360
65,59915,0027,498
65,97015,2187,637
66,33215,4337,781
66,67315,6477,931
66,97515,8608,091
67,25016,0728,251
67,50616,2828,412
67,75016,4898,576
67,97516,6938,742
68,18016,8948,899
68,36617,0939,047
68,45717,2889,188

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.

Israel

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91