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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	Malta	Cambodia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,122	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,317	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,504	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,691	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	398	12,881	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,076	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,276	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,461	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	406	13,630	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	409	13,808	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	412	13,990	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,162	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	416	14,322	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	420	14,480	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	426	14,637	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	435	14,793	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	445	14,994	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	455	15,238	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	468	15,480	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	485	15,717	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	504	15,944	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,149	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	518	16,338	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	530	16,514	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 Malta, Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.