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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 - KinshasaThailandCuba
51,18159,74811,108
52,78260,16511,147
54,45360,74611,179
56,17061,32311,210
57,86061,88411,241
59,59962,42511,260
61,47462,95611,268
63,47963,46711,266
65,59063,93711,261
67,80064,38111,258
70,11464,80411,260
72,55065,20811,262
75,13865,59911,264
77,79265,97011,262
80,53466,33211,250
83,36866,67311,238
86,22966,97511,214
89,19367,25011,180
92,20967,50611,147
95,23267,75011,116
98,32067,97511,105
101,49968,18011,089
104,76768,36611,046
108,17168,45711,003

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

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.