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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MoroccoThailandCongo - Kinshasa
28,40059,74851,181
28,74460,16552,782
29,09460,74654,453
29,44761,32356,170
29,80661,88457,860
30,16962,42559,599
30,55262,95661,474
30,95363,46763,479
31,35463,93765,590
31,75464,38167,800
32,15464,80470,114
32,55365,20872,550
32,95165,59975,138
33,34665,97077,792
33,73766,33280,534
34,12466,67383,368
34,51166,97586,229
34,89867,25089,193
35,27967,50692,209
35,65367,75095,232
36,01867,97598,320
36,37568,180101,499
36,72368,366104,767
37,10168,457108,171

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