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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 United StatesTrinidad & TobagoBosnia & Herzegovina
279,0401,3013,811
282,1621,3033,901
284,9691,3083,919
287,6251,3143,923
290,1081,3203,940
292,8051,3263,975
295,5171,3323,991
298,3801,3383,993
301,2311,3443,990
304,0941,3523,987
306,7721,3593,985
309,3271,3653,983
311,5831,3723,980
313,8781,3793,977
316,0601,3863,973
318,3861,3923,968
320,7391,3993,963
323,0721,4053,957
325,1221,4113,951
326,8381,4363,944
328,3301,4523,937
331,5121,4483,929
332,0321,4503,921
333,2881,4563,876

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

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).

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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