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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 - KinshasaSerbia
59,74851,1817,611
60,16552,7827,587
60,74654,4537,574
61,32356,1707,570
61,88457,8607,551
62,42559,5997,533
62,95661,4747,510
63,46763,4797,481
63,93765,5907,451
64,38167,8007,419
64,80470,1147,389
65,20872,5507,360
65,59975,1387,304
65,97077,7927,269
66,33280,5347,234
66,67383,3687,199
66,97586,2297,162
67,25089,1937,124
67,50692,2097,087
67,75095,2327,048
67,97598,3207,010
68,180101,4996,964
68,366104,7676,898
68,457108,1716,833

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

Serbia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.