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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	Iceland	Côte d’Ivoire
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	277	17,106
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	281	17,552
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	285	18,010
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	288	18,438
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	289	18,895
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	293	19,432
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	296	19,968
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	304	20,512
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	311	21,097
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	319	21,699
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	319	22,285
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	318	22,845
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	319	23,343
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	321	23,879
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	324	24,492
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	327	25,104
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	331	25,719
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	335	26,348
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	343	26,984
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	353	27,614
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	361	28,252
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	366	28,895
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	372	29,546
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	380	30,279

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 Côte d’Ivoire; the database as a whole is cited above.