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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	Laos	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	5,286	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	5,397	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	5,499	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	5,578	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	5,654	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	5,746	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	5,836	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	5,931	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	6,035	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	6,145	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	6,257	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	6,368	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	6,477	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	6,586	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	6,695	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	6,804	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	6,912	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	7,019	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	7,127	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	7,234	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	7,343	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	7,452	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	7,560	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	7,666	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

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