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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	59,748	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	60,165	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	60,746	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	61,323	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	61,884	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	62,425	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	62,956	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	63,467	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	63,937	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	64,381	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	64,804	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	65,208	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	65,599	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	65,970	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	66,332	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	66,673	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	66,975	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	67,250	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	67,506	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	67,750	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,975	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	68,180	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	68,366	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,457	1,330

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