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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 - KinshasaMaltaThailand
51,18138759,748
52,78239060,165
54,45339360,746
56,17039661,323
57,86039861,884
59,59940162,425
61,47440462,956
63,47940563,467
65,59040663,937
67,80040964,381
70,11441264,804
72,55041465,208
75,13841665,599
77,79242065,970
80,53442666,332
83,36843566,673
86,22944566,975
89,19345567,250
92,20946867,506
95,23248567,750
98,32050467,975
101,49951668,180
104,76751868,366
108,17153068,457

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