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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 ThailandRomaniaSudanBarbados
59,74822,41426,168273
60,16522,26226,771274
60,74622,10627,387275
61,32321,93128,017276
61,88421,82828,662278
62,42521,70429,321279
62,95621,57129,996280
63,46721,44330,686281
63,93721,12931,393282
64,38120,77932,137283
64,80420,60733,078285
65,20820,48533,891286
65,59920,38534,568287
65,97020,29635,293288
66,33220,22436,093289
66,67320,15137,058290
66,97520,05538,165291
67,25019,93839,294291
67,50619,82340,512292
67,75019,71341,764293
67,97519,62242,952294
68,18019,49644,121294
68,36619,35145,290295
68,45719,26646,498295

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 Sudan, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.