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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Burkina Faso	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	11,075	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	11,405	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	11,828	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	12,380	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	12,829	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	13,178	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	13,540	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	13,917	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	14,309	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	14,722	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	15,152	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	15,600	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	16,064	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	16,563	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	17,072	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	17,575	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	18,094	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	18,621	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,157	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,698	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	20,242	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	20,788	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	21,336	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	21,889	46,498

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, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.