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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 - KinshasaYemenThailand
51,18116,72859,748
52,78217,23660,165
54,45317,76260,746
56,17018,31061,323
57,86018,85561,884
59,59919,41062,425
61,47420,00062,956
63,47920,61163,467
65,59021,23663,937
67,80021,87864,381
70,11422,53364,804
72,55023,19565,208
75,13823,88065,599
77,79224,59465,970
80,53425,31166,332
83,36826,02066,673
86,22926,69866,975
89,19327,34767,250
92,20927,98567,506
95,23228,60867,750
98,32029,21667,975
101,49929,81168,180
104,76730,39968,366
108,17131,05868,457

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