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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 & TobagoUnited StatesAlbania
1,301279,0403,085
1,303282,1623,065
1,308284,9693,047
1,314287,6253,038
1,320290,1083,026
1,326292,8053,014
1,332295,5172,998
1,338298,3802,979
1,344301,2312,957
1,352304,0942,934
1,359306,7722,915
1,365309,3272,900
1,372311,5832,892
1,379313,8782,888
1,386316,0602,882
1,392318,3862,876
1,399320,7392,868
1,405323,0722,863
1,411325,1222,861
1,436326,8382,854
1,452328,3302,842
1,448331,5122,825
1,450332,0322,799
1,456333,2882,787

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

United States

  • 1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
  • 1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
  • 1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
  • 1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

No separate list is published for Trinidad & Tobago, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.