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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Qatar	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	627	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	659	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	691	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	724	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	757	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	850	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,001	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,153	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,306	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,460	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,615	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,770	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,904	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,010	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,103	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,187	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,261	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,326	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,384	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,435	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,480	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,519	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,553	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,559	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

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