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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaEcuadorOmanThailand
51,18112,2682,34859,748
52,78212,4462,40360,165
54,45312,6292,45760,746
56,17012,8272,51061,323
57,86013,0742,56261,884
59,59913,3682,61362,425
61,47413,6612,66362,956
63,47913,9152,71363,467
65,59014,1332,76463,937
67,80014,3522,81664,381
70,11414,5692,87164,804
72,55014,7862,92865,208
75,13815,0022,98665,599
77,79215,2183,04765,970
80,53415,4333,11066,332
83,36815,6473,17466,673
86,22915,8603,24066,975
89,19316,0723,30767,250
92,20916,2823,37567,506
95,23216,4893,44467,750
98,32016,6933,51267,975
101,49916,8943,58268,180
104,76717,0933,65168,366
108,17117,2883,69668,457

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

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.