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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	59,748	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	60,165	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	60,746	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	61,323	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	61,884	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	62,425	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	62,956	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	63,467	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	63,937	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	64,381	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	64,804	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	65,208	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	65,599	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	65,970	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	66,332	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	66,673	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	66,975	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	67,250	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	67,506	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	67,750	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,975	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	68,180	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	68,366	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,457	13,087

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