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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Qatar	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	78	627	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	79	659	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	80	691	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	81	724	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	82	757	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	83	850	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	84	1,001	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	85	1,153	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	86	1,306	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	87	1,460	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	87	1,615	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	88	1,770	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	89	1,904	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	90	2,010	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	91	2,103	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	92	2,187	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	92	2,261	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	93	2,326	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	94	2,384	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95	2,435	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	96	2,480	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	97	2,519	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	98	2,553	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	98	2,559	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 Seychelles, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.