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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Cuba	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,108	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,147	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,179	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	11,210	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	11,241	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	11,260	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	11,268	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	11,266	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	11,261	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	11,258	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	11,260	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	11,262	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	11,264	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	11,262	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	11,250	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	11,238	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	11,214	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,180	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,147	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,116	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,105	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,089	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,046	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	11,003	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.

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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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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.