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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 South AfricaBarbadosThailand
46,25727359,748
46,95827460,165
47,82027560,746
48,48027661,323
48,95127861,884
49,47827962,425
50,05428062,956
50,66728163,467
51,33928263,937
52,07728364,381
52,86228564,804
53,68228665,208
54,51828765,599
55,35628865,970
56,21528966,332
57,07529066,673
57,94729166,975
58,83029167,250
59,71529267,506
60,59529367,750
61,46929467,975
62,35529468,180
62,90029568,366
63,38229568,457

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

South Africa

  • 1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.