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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 - KinshasaParaguay
59,74851,1815,366
60,16552,7825,473
60,74654,4535,579
61,32356,1705,683
61,88457,8605,786
62,42559,5995,886
62,95661,4745,984
63,46763,4796,080
63,93765,5906,173
64,38167,8006,264
64,80470,1146,352
65,20872,5506,438
65,59975,1386,522
65,97077,7926,605
66,33280,5346,688
66,67383,3686,769
66,97586,2296,850
67,25089,1936,930
67,50692,2097,012
67,75095,2327,095
67,97598,3207,179
68,180101,4997,263
68,366104,7677,348
68,457108,1717,432

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