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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 ThailandBarbadosCongo - Kinshasa
59,74827351,181
60,16527452,782
60,74627554,453
61,32327656,170
61,88427857,860
62,42527959,599
62,95628061,474
63,46728163,479
63,93728265,590
64,38128367,800
64,80428570,114
65,20828672,550
65,59928775,138
65,97028877,792
66,33228980,534
66,67329083,368
66,97529186,229
67,25029189,193
67,50629292,209
67,75029395,232
67,97529498,320
68,180294101,499
68,366295104,767
68,457295108,171

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