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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 ThailandJordanQatar
59,7484,591627
60,1654,700659
60,7464,811691
61,3234,923724
61,8845,037757
62,4255,161850
62,9565,2951,001
63,4675,7651,153
63,9376,2431,306
64,3816,3971,460
64,8046,5381,615
65,2086,6801,770
65,5996,8401,904
65,9706,9522,010
66,3327,7062,103
66,6738,8392,187
66,9759,5062,261
67,2509,8632,326
67,50610,0662,384
67,75010,2732,435
67,97510,4802,480
68,18010,6282,519
68,36610,7162,553
68,45710,8492,559

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

No separate list is published for Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.