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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Iceland	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	277	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	281	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	285	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	288	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	289	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	293	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	296	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	304	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	311	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	319	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	319	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	318	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	319	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	321	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	324	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	327	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	331	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	335	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	343	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	353	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	361	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	366	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	372	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	380	110,593

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828