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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Greece	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	10,618	433
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	10,662	438
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	10,718	443
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	10,757	448
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	10,783	454
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	10,809	460
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	10,841	467
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	10,874	474
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	10,901	482
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	10,930	491
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	10,959	500
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	10,973	509
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	10,957	521
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	10,898	533
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	10,819	547
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	10,747	560
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	10,677	571
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	10,633	586
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	10,612	599
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	10,590	610
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	10,579	623
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	10,556	633
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	10,499	643
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	10,437	651

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

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.