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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chad	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	7,559	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	7,821	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	8,092	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	8,395	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	8,763	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	9,191	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	9,594	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	9,967	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	10,338	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	10,728	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	11,139	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	11,550	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	11,983	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	12,427	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	12,895	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	13,379	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	13,823	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	14,277	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	14,765	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	15,252	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	15,750	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	16,257	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	16,776	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	17,307	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

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