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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 - KinshasaThailandSenegal
51,18159,74810,070
52,78260,16510,305
54,45360,74610,576
56,17061,32310,864
57,86061,88411,172
59,59962,42511,498
61,47462,95611,839
63,47963,46712,204
65,59063,93712,584
67,80064,38112,978
70,11464,80413,382
72,55065,20813,794
75,13865,59914,226
77,79265,97014,668
80,53466,33215,121
83,36866,67315,589
86,22966,97516,066
89,19367,25016,549
92,20967,50617,044
95,23267,75017,535
98,32067,97518,021
101,49968,18018,518
104,76768,36619,016
108,17168,45719,512

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