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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Hong Kong SAR China	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	6,587	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	6,646	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	6,695	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	6,725	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	6,712	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	6,765	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	6,794	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	6,838	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	6,897	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	6,938	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	6,953	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	7,004	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	7,052	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	7,130	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	7,159	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	7,209	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	7,271	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	7,316	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	7,372	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	7,432	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	7,487	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	7,460	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	7,392	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	7,387	108,171

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

No separate list is published for Hong Kong SAR China, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.