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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 - KinshasaLebanon
59,74851,1813,460
60,16552,7823,499
60,74654,4533,554
61,32356,1703,610
61,88457,8603,665
62,42559,5993,721
62,95661,4743,777
63,46763,4793,853
63,93765,5903,954
64,38167,8004,036
64,80470,1144,082
65,20872,5504,097
65,59975,1384,115
65,97077,7924,206
66,33280,5344,696
66,67383,3685,365
66,97586,2295,640
67,25089,1935,688
67,50692,2095,680
67,75095,2325,562
67,97598,3205,331
68,180101,4994,986
68,366104,7674,802
68,457108,1714,713

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

Lebanon

  • 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.