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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	51,181	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	52,782	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	54,453	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	56,170	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	57,860	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	59,599	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	61,474	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	63,479	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	65,590	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	67,800	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	70,114	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	72,550	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	75,138	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	77,792	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	80,534	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	83,368	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	86,229	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	89,193	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	92,209	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	95,232	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	98,320	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	101,499	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	104,767	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	108,171	85,108

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

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.