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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	Lesotho	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	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 Lesotho, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.