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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Oman	Romania	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	2,348	22,414	152
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	2,403	22,262	153
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	2,457	22,106	154
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	2,510	21,931	155
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	2,562	21,828	156
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	2,613	21,704	157
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,663	21,571	157
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,713	21,443	158
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,764	21,129	159
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,816	20,779	160
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,871	20,607	160
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,928	20,485	161
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,986	20,385	162
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,047	20,296	162
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,110	20,224	163
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,174	20,151	163
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,240	20,055	164
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,307	19,938	164
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,375	19,823	165
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,444	19,713	166
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,512	19,622	166
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,582	19,496	167
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,651	19,351	167
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,696	19,266	167

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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