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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 - KinshasaMoldova
59,74851,1814,244
60,16552,7824,199
60,74654,4534,154
61,32356,1704,108
61,88457,8604,059
62,42559,5994,013
62,95661,4743,966
63,46763,4793,919
63,93765,5903,873
64,38167,8003,829
64,80470,1143,788
65,20872,5503,748
65,59975,1383,709
65,97077,7923,671
66,33280,5343,633
66,67383,3683,595
66,97586,2293,558
67,25089,1933,522
67,50692,2093,485
67,75095,2323,448
67,97598,3203,412
68,180101,4993,376
68,366104,7673,339
68,457108,1713,570

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.