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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 - KinshasaBoliviaThailand
51,1818,00759,748
52,7828,17760,165
54,4538,35160,746
56,1708,52961,323
57,8608,71161,884
59,5998,89562,425
61,4749,08162,956
63,4799,26863,467
65,5909,45763,937
67,8009,64764,381
70,1149,83664,804
72,55010,02465,208
75,13810,21165,599
77,79210,39765,970
80,53410,58166,332
83,36810,76366,673
86,22910,94266,975
89,19311,11867,250
92,20911,28967,506
95,23211,45667,750
98,32011,62167,975
101,49911,77568,180
104,76711,91768,366
108,17112,06068,457

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

Bolivia

  • 1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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; the database as a whole is cited above.