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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 RepublicThailandCongo - Kinshasa
8,17559,74851,181
8,30160,16552,782
8,42760,74654,453
8,55361,32356,170
8,67861,88457,860
8,80162,42559,599
8,92462,95661,474
9,04463,46763,479
9,16463,93765,590
9,28164,38167,800
9,39864,80470,114
9,51265,20872,550
9,62765,59975,138
9,74265,97077,792
9,85566,33280,534
9,96566,67383,368
10,07266,97586,229
10,17767,25089,193
10,28167,50692,209
10,38567,75095,232
10,48767,97598,320
10,58768,180101,499
10,68668,366104,767
10,79368,457108,171

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

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.