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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 - KinshasaJordan
59,74851,1814,591
60,16552,7824,700
60,74654,4534,811
61,32356,1704,923
61,88457,8605,037
62,42559,5995,161
62,95661,4745,295
63,46763,4795,765
63,93765,5906,243
64,38167,8006,397
64,80470,1146,538
65,20872,5506,680
65,59975,1386,840
65,97077,7926,952
66,33280,5347,706
66,67383,3688,839
66,97586,2299,506
67,25089,1939,863
67,50692,20910,066
67,75095,23210,273
67,97598,32010,480
68,180101,49910,628
68,366104,76710,716
68,457108,17110,849

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

Jordan

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 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.