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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	68,457	108,171

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.