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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	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	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 Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.