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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	10,849

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

Jordan

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
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