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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Thailand	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	59,748	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	60,165	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	60,746	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	61,323	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	61,884	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	62,425	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	62,956	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	63,467	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	63,937	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	64,381	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	64,804	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	65,208	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	65,599	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	65,970	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	66,332	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	66,673	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	66,975	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	67,250	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	67,506	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	67,750	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	67,975	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	68,180	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	68,366	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	68,457	5,907

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

United Kingdom

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.