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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Sri Lanka	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	19,354	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	19,610	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	19,838	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	20,060	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	20,297	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	20,529	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	20,703	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	20,917	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	21,120	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	21,315	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	21,503	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	21,713	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	21,918	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	22,120	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	22,320	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	22,517	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	22,711	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	22,899	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	23,080	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	23,254	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	23,420	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	23,579	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	23,732	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	23,796	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

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 Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.