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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 Congo - KinshasaAzerbaijanThailand
51,1818,05659,748
52,7828,12760,165
54,4538,19460,746
56,1708,25761,323
57,8608,31961,884
59,5998,39162,425
61,4748,47562,956
63,4798,56563,467
65,5908,65763,937
67,8008,75064,381
70,1148,84264,804
72,5508,93365,208
75,1389,02565,599
77,7929,11765,970
80,5349,21066,332
83,3689,30266,673
86,2299,39366,975
89,1939,48167,250
92,2099,56767,506
95,2329,64967,750
98,3209,72767,975
101,4999,80268,180
104,7679,87468,366
108,1719,91868,457

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