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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	Iran	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	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

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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