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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Estonia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	1,378	387
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	1,400	390
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	1,391	393
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	1,382	396
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	1,374	398
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	1,365	401
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	1,357	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	1,349	405
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	1,341	406
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	1,337	409
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	1,334	412
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	1,332	414
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	1,328	416
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	1,324	420
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	1,319	426
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	1,314	435
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	1,312	445
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	1,314	455
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	1,314	468
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	1,318	485
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	1,323	504
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	1,327	516
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	1,329	518
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	1,330	530

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 Estonia, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.