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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ThailandOmanCanadaBarbados
59,7482,34830,510273
60,1652,40330,796274
60,7462,45731,132275
61,3232,51031,473276
61,8842,56231,758278
62,4252,61332,055279
62,9562,66332,360280
63,4672,71332,688281
63,9372,76433,007282
64,3812,81633,367283
64,8042,87133,750285
65,2082,92834,127286
65,5992,98634,463287
65,9703,04734,839288
66,3323,11035,209289
66,6733,17435,565290
66,9753,24035,831291
67,2503,30736,239291
67,5063,37536,677292
67,7503,44437,198293
67,9753,51237,736294
68,1803,58238,174294
68,3663,65138,383295
68,4573,69638,685295

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.

All data sources

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

Canada

  • 1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
  • 1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
  • 1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

No separate list is published for Oman, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.