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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	Sierra Leone	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	3,736	387
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	3,809	390
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	4,043	393
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	4,287	396
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	4,466	398
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	4,602	401
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	4,708	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	4,818	405
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	4,918	406
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	5,023	409
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	5,132	412
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	5,246	414
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	5,364	416
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	5,486	420
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	5,613	426
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	5,744	435
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	5,879	445
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	6,019	455
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	6,163	468
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	6,312	485
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	6,461	504
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	6,611	516
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	6,761	518
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	6,910	530

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 Sierra Leone, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.