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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Albania	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,085	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,065	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,047	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,038	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	3,026	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,014	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,998	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,979	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,957	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,934	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,915	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,900	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,892	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,888	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,882	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,876	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,868	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,863	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,861	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,854	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,842	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,825	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,799	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,787	68,457

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.

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