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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 ThailandCongo - KinshasaAlbania
59,74851,1813,085
60,16552,7823,065
60,74654,4533,047
61,32356,1703,038
61,88457,8603,026
62,42559,5993,014
62,95661,4742,998
63,46763,4792,979
63,93765,5902,957
64,38167,8002,934
64,80470,1142,915
65,20872,5502,900
65,59975,1382,892
65,97077,7922,888
66,33280,5342,882
66,67383,3682,876
66,97586,2292,868
67,25089,1932,863
67,50692,2092,861
67,75095,2322,854
67,97598,3202,842
68,180101,4992,825
68,366104,7672,799
68,457108,1712,787

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