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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 - KinshasaTanzaniaThailand
51,18132,91259,748
52,78233,95360,165
54,45334,97460,746
56,17036,02161,323
57,86037,10061,884
59,59938,16762,425
61,47439,26262,956
63,47940,38763,467
65,59041,55763,937
67,80042,74164,381
70,11443,88964,804
72,55045,13265,208
75,13846,53165,599
77,79247,96565,970
80,53449,43766,332
83,36850,96566,673
86,22952,60466,975
89,19354,33667,250
92,20956,06267,506
95,23257,76567,750
98,32059,46567,975
101,49961,19168,180
104,76762,94468,366
108,17164,83568,457

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