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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 SudanThailandCongo - Kinshasa
26,16859,74851,181
26,77160,16552,782
27,38760,74654,453
28,01761,32356,170
28,66261,88457,860
29,32162,42559,599
29,99662,95661,474
30,68663,46763,479
31,39363,93765,590
32,13764,38167,800
33,07864,80470,114
33,89165,20872,550
34,56865,59975,138
35,29365,97077,792
36,09366,33280,534
37,05866,67383,368
38,16566,97586,229
39,29467,25089,193
40,51267,50692,209
41,76467,75095,232
42,95267,97598,320
44,12168,180101,499
45,29068,366104,767
46,49868,457108,171

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

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