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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ethiopia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	63,575	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	65,213	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	66,889	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	68,649	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	70,491	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	72,389	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	74,327	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	76,326	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	78,411	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	80,564	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	82,787	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	85,096	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	87,530	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	90,066	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	92,632	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	95,337	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	98,114	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	100,858	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	103,654	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	106,466	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	109,267	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	112,100	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	114,964	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	117,924	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 Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.