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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 SerbiaThailandCongo - Kinshasa
7,61159,74851,181
7,58760,16552,782
7,57460,74654,453
7,57061,32356,170
7,55161,88457,860
7,53362,42559,599
7,51062,95661,474
7,48163,46763,479
7,45163,93765,590
7,41964,38167,800
7,38964,80470,114
7,36065,20872,550
7,30465,59975,138
7,26965,97077,792
7,23466,33280,534
7,19966,67383,368
7,16266,97586,229
7,12467,25089,193
7,08767,50692,209
7,04867,75095,232
7,01067,97598,320
6,96468,180101,499
6,89868,366104,767
6,83368,457108,171

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

Serbia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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