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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	51,181	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	52,782	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	54,453	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	56,170	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	57,860	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	59,599	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	61,474	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	63,479	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	65,590	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	67,800	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	70,114	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	72,550	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	75,138	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	77,792	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	80,534	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	83,368	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	86,229	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	89,193	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	92,209	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	95,232	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	98,320	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	101,499	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	104,767	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	108,171	146,693

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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