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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Venezuela	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	23,188	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	23,601	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	24,011	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	24,425	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	24,841	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	25,255	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	25,667	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	26,079	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	26,589	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	27,098	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	27,510	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	27,920	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	28,327	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	28,722	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	29,111	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	29,418	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	29,693	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	29,961	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	29,856	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	28,858	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	27,921	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	27,871	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	28,316	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	28,418	68,457

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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; the database as a whole is cited above.