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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 - KinshasaThailand
51,18159,748
52,78260,165
54,45360,746
56,17061,323
57,86061,884
59,59962,425
61,47462,956
63,47963,467
65,59063,937
67,80064,381
70,11464,804
72,55065,208
75,13865,599
77,79265,970
80,53466,332
83,36866,673
86,22966,975
89,19367,250
92,20967,506
95,23267,750
98,32067,975
101,49968,180
104,76768,366
108,17168,457

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; the database as a whole is cited above.