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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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.