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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Albania	Benin
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	3,085	6,461
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	3,065	6,677
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	3,047	6,902
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	3,038	7,130
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	3,026	7,360
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	3,014	7,589
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,998	7,838
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,979	8,089
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,957	8,335
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,934	8,603
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,915	8,884
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,900	9,179
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,892	9,486
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	2,888	9,805
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	2,882	10,135
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	2,876	10,480
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	2,868	10,842
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	2,863	11,220
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	2,861	11,613
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	2,854	12,018
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	2,842	12,370
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	2,825	12,725
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	2,799	13,081
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	2,787	13,439

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 Albania, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.