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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	68,457	108,171

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.