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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Albania	China
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	3,085	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	3,065	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	3,047	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	3,038	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	3,026	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	3,014	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,998	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,979	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,957	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,934	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,915	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,900	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,892	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	2,888	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	2,882	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	2,876	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	2,868	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	2,863	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	2,861	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	2,854	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	2,842	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	2,825	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	2,799	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	2,787	1,401,693

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.