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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 & TobagoYemenThailand
1,30116,72859,748
1,30317,23660,165
1,30817,76260,746
1,31418,31061,323
1,32018,85561,884
1,32619,41062,425
1,33220,00062,956
1,33820,61163,467
1,34421,23663,937
1,35221,87864,381
1,35922,53364,804
1,36523,19565,208
1,37223,88065,599
1,37924,59465,970
1,38625,31166,332
1,39226,02066,673
1,39926,69866,975
1,40527,34767,250
1,41127,98567,506
1,43628,60867,750
1,45229,21667,975
1,44829,81168,180
1,45030,39968,366
1,45631,05868,457

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