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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	59,748	433
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	60,165	438
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	60,746	443
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	61,323	448
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	61,884	454
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	62,425	460
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	62,956	467
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	63,467	474
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	63,937	482
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	64,381	491
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	64,804	500
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	65,208	509
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	65,599	521
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	65,970	533
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	66,332	547
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	66,673	560
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	66,975	571
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	67,250	586
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	67,506	599
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	67,750	610
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,975	623
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	68,180	633
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	68,366	643
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,457	651

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