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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	3,811	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	3,901	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	3,919	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	3,923	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	3,940	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	3,975	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	3,991	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	3,993	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	3,990	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	3,987	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	3,985	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	3,983	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	3,980	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	3,977	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	3,973	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	3,968	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	3,963	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	3,957	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	3,951	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	3,944	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	3,937	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	3,929	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	3,921	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	3,876	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.

All data sources

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.