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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Mauritania	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,437	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,501	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,566	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,632	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,699	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,768	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,838	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,909	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,981	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,055	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,129	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,205	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,282	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	3,359	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	3,438	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	3,517	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	3,597	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,677	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,759	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,840	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,942	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	4,045	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	4,150	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	4,259	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.

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

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