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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	Iceland	Thailand	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	19,266	2,559

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.

All data sources

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.