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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 - KinshasaLibyaThailand
51,1814,99359,748
52,7825,11660,165
54,4535,23760,746
56,1705,35761,323
57,8605,47661,884
59,5995,59562,425
61,4745,71562,956
63,4795,83563,467
65,5905,96763,937
67,8006,11564,381
70,1146,27064,804
72,5506,43265,208
75,1386,14465,599
77,7925,84965,970
80,5346,01066,332
83,3686,16366,673
86,2296,29166,975
89,1936,41567,250
92,2096,54967,506
95,2326,68967,750
98,3206,82667,975
101,4996,96068,180
104,7677,08868,366
108,1717,16968,457

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