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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand	Cyprus
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	59,748	818
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	60,165	826
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	60,746	835
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	61,323	845
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	61,884	855
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	62,425	867
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	62,956	879
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	63,467	894
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	63,937	913
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	64,381	937
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	64,804	962
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	65,208	988
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	65,599	1,013
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	65,970	1,029
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	66,332	1,026
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	66,673	1,015
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	66,975	1,009
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	67,250	1,014
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	67,506	1,023
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	67,750	1,036
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,975	1,050
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	68,180	1,062
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	68,366	1,072
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,457	1,087

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