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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Arab Emirates	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	3,101	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	3,284	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	3,458	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	3,613	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	3,754	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	3,882	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	4,000	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	4,532	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	5,623	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	7,277	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	8,164	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	8,152	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	8,438	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	8,747	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	9,077	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	9,321	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	9,461	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	9,587	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	9,699	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	9,796	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	9,879	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	9,953	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	10,018	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	10,099	68,457	108,171

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

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 United Arab Emirates, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.