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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Djibouti	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	646	51,181	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	669	52,782	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	693	54,453	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	716	56,170	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	691	57,860	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	657	59,599	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	666	61,474	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	679	63,479	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	694	65,590	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	709	67,800	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	725	70,114	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	741	72,550	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	757	75,138	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	774	77,792	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	792	80,534	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	810	83,368	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	828	86,229	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	847	89,193	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	865	92,209	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	884	95,232	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	898	98,320	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	912	101,499	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	924	104,767	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	937	108,171	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.

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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 Djibouti, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.