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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 Dominican RepublicCongo - KinshasaThailand
8,17551,18159,748
8,30152,78260,165
8,42754,45360,746
8,55356,17061,323
8,67857,86061,884
8,80159,59962,425
8,92461,47462,956
9,04463,47963,467
9,16465,59063,937
9,28167,80064,381
9,39870,11464,804
9,51272,55065,208
9,62775,13865,599
9,74277,79265,970
9,85580,53466,332
9,96583,36866,673
10,07286,22966,975
10,17789,19367,250
10,28192,20967,506
10,38595,23267,750
10,48798,32067,975
10,587101,49968,180
10,686104,76768,366
10,793108,17168,457

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