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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	Canada	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	30,510	627
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	30,796	659
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	31,132	691
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	31,473	724
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	31,758	757
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	32,055	850
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	32,360	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	32,688	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	33,007	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	33,367	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	33,750	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	34,127	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	34,463	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	34,839	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	35,209	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	35,565	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	35,831	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	36,239	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	36,677	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	37,198	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	37,736	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	38,174	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	38,383	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	38,685	2,559

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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