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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 ThailandIcelandCongo - Kinshasa
59,74827751,181
60,16528152,782
60,74628554,453
61,32328856,170
61,88428957,860
62,42529359,599
62,95629661,474
63,46730463,479
63,93731165,590
64,38131967,800
64,80431970,114
65,20831872,550
65,59931975,138
65,97032177,792
66,33232480,534
66,67332783,368
66,97533186,229
67,25033589,193
67,50634392,209
67,75035395,232
67,97536198,320
68,180366101,499
68,366372104,767
68,457380108,171

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

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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