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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Palestinian Territories	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	2,996	51,181	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	3,075	52,782	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	3,155	54,453	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	3,235	56,170	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	3,315	57,860	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	3,396	59,599	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	3,478	61,474	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	3,559	63,479	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	3,642	65,590	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	3,727	67,800	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	3,817	70,114	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	3,907	72,550	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	3,997	75,138	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	4,088	77,792	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	4,178	80,534	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	4,269	83,368	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	4,359	86,229	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	4,451	89,193	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	4,533	92,209	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	4,615	95,232	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	4,715	98,320	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	4,820	101,499	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	4,930	104,767	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	5,042	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

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