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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 - KinshasaMongolia
59,74851,1812,433
60,16552,7822,461
60,74654,4532,489
61,32356,1702,519
61,88457,8602,547
62,42559,5992,574
62,95661,4742,602
63,46763,4792,633
63,93765,5902,666
64,38167,8002,702
64,80470,1142,741
65,20872,5502,783
65,59975,1382,827
65,97077,7922,870
66,33280,5342,912
66,67383,3682,953
66,97586,2292,993
67,25089,1933,031
67,50692,2093,068
67,75095,2323,103
67,97598,3203,171
68,180101,4993,231
68,366104,7673,284
68,457108,1713,333

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