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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	Paraguay	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	5,366	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	5,473	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	5,579	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	5,683	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	5,786	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	5,886	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	5,984	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	6,080	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	6,173	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	6,264	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	6,352	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	6,438	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	6,522	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	6,605	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	6,688	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	6,769	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	6,850	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	6,930	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	7,012	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	7,095	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	7,179	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	7,263	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	7,348	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	7,432	21,889

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

No separate list is published for Paraguay, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.