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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 - KinshasaThailandUzbekistan
51,18159,74824,701
52,78260,16525,042
54,45360,74625,372
56,17061,32325,696
57,86061,88425,992
59,59962,42526,268
61,47462,95626,540
63,47963,46726,812
65,59063,93727,081
67,80064,38127,347
70,11464,80427,609
72,55065,20827,869
75,13865,59928,132
77,79265,97028,398
80,53466,33228,666
83,36866,67328,934
86,22966,97529,205
89,19367,25029,480
92,20967,50629,756
95,23267,75030,031
98,32067,97530,305
101,49968,18030,576
104,76768,36630,843
108,17168,45731,337

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