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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Thailand	Congo - Brazzaville
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	2,886
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	2,999
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	3,113
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	3,181
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	3,274
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	3,400
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	3,543
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	3,702
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	3,859
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	3,989
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	4,146
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	4,324
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	4,468
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	4,581
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	4,667
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	4,757
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	4,851
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	4,951
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	5,055
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	5,164
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	5,279
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	5,400
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	5,527
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	5,655

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 - Brazzaville; the database as a whole is cited above.