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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	59,748	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	60,165	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	60,746	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	61,323	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	61,884	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	62,425	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	62,956	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	63,467	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	63,937	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	64,381	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	64,804	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	65,208	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	65,599	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	65,970	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	66,332	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	66,673	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	66,975	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	67,250	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	67,506	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	67,750	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	67,975	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	68,180	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	68,366	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	68,457	2,048

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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.