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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	29,417

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 Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.