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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Iceland	India
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	277	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	281	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	285	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	288	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	289	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	293	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	296	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	304	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	311	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	319	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	319	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	318	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	319	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	321	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	324	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	327	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	331	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	335	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	343	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	353	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	361	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	366	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	372	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	380	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.