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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 - KinshasaSerbiaThailand
51,1817,61159,748
52,7827,58760,165
54,4537,57460,746
56,1707,57061,323
57,8607,55161,884
59,5997,53362,425
61,4747,51062,956
63,4797,48163,467
65,5907,45163,937
67,8007,41964,381
70,1147,38964,804
72,5507,36065,208
75,1387,30465,599
77,7927,26965,970
80,5347,23466,332
83,3687,19966,673
86,2297,16266,975
89,1937,12467,250
92,2097,08767,506
95,2327,04867,750
98,3207,01067,975
101,4996,96468,180
104,7676,89868,366
108,1716,83368,457

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

Serbia

  • 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.