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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa	Eswatini
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	51,181	1,033
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	52,782	1,032
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	54,453	1,030
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	56,170	1,028
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	57,860	1,026
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	59,599	1,025
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	61,474	1,023
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	63,479	1,021
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	65,590	1,019
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	67,800	1,017
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	70,114	1,017
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	72,550	1,019
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	75,138	1,024
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	77,792	1,032
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	80,534	1,041
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	83,368	1,051
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	86,229	1,060
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	89,193	1,069
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	92,209	1,078
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	95,232	1,087
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	98,320	1,096
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	101,499	1,106
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	104,767	1,117
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	108,171	1,126

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