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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 AzerbaijanCongo - KinshasaThailand
8,05651,18159,748
8,12752,78260,165
8,19454,45360,746
8,25756,17061,323
8,31957,86061,884
8,39159,59962,425
8,47561,47462,956
8,56563,47963,467
8,65765,59063,937
8,75067,80064,381
8,84270,11464,804
8,93372,55065,208
9,02575,13865,599
9,11777,79265,970
9,21080,53466,332
9,30283,36866,673
9,39386,22966,975
9,48189,19367,250
9,56792,20967,506
9,64995,23267,750
9,72798,32067,975
9,802101,49968,180
9,874104,76768,366
9,918108,17168,457

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 Azerbaijan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.