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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 ThailandColombiaCongo - Kinshasa
59,74838,36551,181
60,16538,91152,782
60,74639,41154,453
61,32339,91856,170
61,88440,41657,860
62,42540,89959,599
62,95641,37461,474
63,46741,86263,479
63,93742,32465,590
64,38142,78167,800
64,80443,26470,114
65,20843,77172,550
65,59944,22575,138
65,97044,66077,792
66,33245,08180,534
66,67345,84683,368
66,97546,29086,229
67,25046,79689,193
67,50647,38592,209
67,75048,22295,232
67,97549,32698,320
68,18050,283101,499
68,36650,978104,767
68,45751,332108,171

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

Colombia

  • 1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
  • 1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
  • 1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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