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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 ThailandOmanEcuador
59,7482,34812,268
60,1652,40312,446
60,7462,45712,629
61,3232,51012,827
61,8842,56213,074
62,4252,61313,368
62,9562,66313,661
63,4672,71313,915
63,9372,76414,133
64,3812,81614,352
64,8042,87114,569
65,2082,92814,786
65,5992,98615,002
65,9703,04715,218
66,3323,11015,433
66,6733,17415,647
66,9753,24015,860
67,2503,30716,072
67,5063,37516,282
67,7503,44416,489
67,9753,51216,693
68,1803,58216,894
68,3663,65117,093
68,4573,69617,288

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.

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