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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Burundi
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	6,128
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	6,282
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	6,466
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	6,670
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	6,897
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	7,167
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	7,439
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	7,709
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	7,991
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	8,318
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	8,741
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	9,140
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	9,440
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	9,748
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	10,069
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	10,380
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	10,577
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	10,721
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	10,955
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	11,229
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	11,602
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	11,987
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	12,384
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	12,795

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 Burkina Faso, Burundi; the database as a whole is cited above.