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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	North Macedonia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,006	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,017	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,026	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,011	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,018	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,024	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,028	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,031	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,035	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,038	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,042	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,046	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,049	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,052	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,055	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,058	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,061	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,063	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,065	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,067	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,068	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,065	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,057	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,048	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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.