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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Thailand	Côte d’Ivoire
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	17,106
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	17,552
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	18,010
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	18,438
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	18,895
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	19,432
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	19,968
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	20,512
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	21,097
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	21,699
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	22,285
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	22,845
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	23,343
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	23,879
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	24,492
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	25,104
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	25,719
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	26,348
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	26,984
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	27,614
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	28,252
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	28,895
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	29,546
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	30,279

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 Côte d’Ivoire; the database as a whole is cited above.