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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Albania	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	3,085	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	3,065	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	3,047	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	3,038	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	3,026	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	3,014	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	2,998	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	2,979	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	2,957	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	2,934	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	2,915	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	2,900	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	2,892	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	2,888	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	2,882	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	2,876	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	2,868	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	2,863	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	2,861	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	2,854	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	2,842	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	2,825	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	2,799	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	2,787	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.