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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 CroatiaThailandCongo - Kinshasa
4,37759,74851,181
4,33460,16552,782
4,17160,74654,453
4,17661,32356,170
4,17661,88457,860
4,17962,42559,599
4,18262,95661,474
4,18363,46763,479
4,18363,93765,590
4,18164,38167,800
4,17764,80470,114
4,16765,20872,550
4,15465,59975,138
4,14165,97077,792
4,12666,33280,534
4,10966,67383,368
4,08166,97586,229
4,04767,25089,193
4,00667,50692,209
3,96867,75095,232
3,94567,97598,320
3,92568,180101,499
3,83968,366104,767
3,79068,457108,171

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

Croatia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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