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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaThailandSierra Leone
51,18159,7483,736
52,78260,1653,809
54,45360,7464,043
56,17061,3234,287
57,86061,8844,466
59,59962,4254,602
61,47462,9564,708
63,47963,4674,818
65,59063,9374,918
67,80064,3815,023
70,11464,8045,132
72,55065,2085,246
75,13865,5995,364
77,79265,9705,486
80,53466,3325,613
83,36866,6735,744
86,22966,9755,879
89,19367,2506,019
92,20967,5066,163
95,23267,7506,312
98,32067,9756,461
101,49968,1806,611
104,76768,3666,761
108,17168,4576,910

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.