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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 CubaThailandCongo - Kinshasa
11,10859,74851,181
11,14760,16552,782
11,17960,74654,453
11,21061,32356,170
11,24161,88457,860
11,26062,42559,599
11,26862,95661,474
11,26663,46763,479
11,26163,93765,590
11,25864,38167,800
11,26064,80470,114
11,26265,20872,550
11,26465,59975,138
11,26265,97077,792
11,25066,33280,534
11,23866,67383,368
11,21466,97586,229
11,18067,25089,193
11,14767,50692,209
11,11667,75095,232
11,10567,97598,320
11,08968,180101,499
11,04668,366104,767
11,00368,457108,171

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

Cuba

  • 1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
  • 1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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.