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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Thailand	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	59,748	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	60,165	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	60,746	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	61,323	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	61,884	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	62,425	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	62,956	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	63,467	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	63,937	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	64,381	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	64,804	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	65,208	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	65,599	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	65,970	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	66,332	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	66,673	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	66,975	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	67,250	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	67,506	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	67,750	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	67,975	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	68,180	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	68,366	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	68,457	1,456

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 Central African Republic, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.