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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 Trinidad & TobagoThailandRomania
1,30159,74822,414
1,30360,16522,262
1,30860,74622,106
1,31461,32321,931
1,32061,88421,828
1,32662,42521,704
1,33262,95621,571
1,33863,46721,443
1,34463,93721,129
1,35264,38120,779
1,35964,80420,607
1,36565,20820,485
1,37265,59920,385
1,37965,97020,296
1,38666,33220,224
1,39266,67320,151
1,39966,97520,055
1,40567,25019,938
1,41167,50619,823
1,43667,75019,713
1,45267,97519,622
1,44868,18019,496
1,45068,36619,351
1,45668,45719,266

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

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 Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.