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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	59,748	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	60,165	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	60,746	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	61,323	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	61,884	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	62,425	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	62,956	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	63,467	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	63,937	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	64,381	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	64,804	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	65,208	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	65,599	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	65,970	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	66,332	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	66,673	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	66,975	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	67,250	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	67,506	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	67,750	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,975	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	68,180	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	68,366	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,457	2,059

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