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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Djibouti	Romania	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	646	22,414	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	669	22,262	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	693	22,106	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	716	21,931	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	691	21,828	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	657	21,704	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	666	21,571	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	679	21,443	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	694	21,129	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	709	20,779	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	725	20,607	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	741	20,485	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	757	20,385	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	774	20,296	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	792	20,224	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	810	20,151	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	828	20,055	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	847	19,938	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	865	19,823	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	884	19,713	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	898	19,622	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	912	19,496	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	924	19,351	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	937	19,266	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.