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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cape Verde	Thailand	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	422	59,748	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	430	60,165	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	438	60,746	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	447	61,323	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	455	61,884	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	463	62,425	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	471	62,956	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	478	63,467	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	486	63,937	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	494	64,381	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	501	64,804	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	509	65,208	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	516	65,599	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	524	65,970	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	531	66,332	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	539	66,673	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	546	66,975	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	553	67,250	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	562	67,506	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	568	67,750	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	574	67,975	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	580	68,180	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	585	68,366	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	590	68,457	5,907

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 Cape Verde, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.