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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	Laos	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	5,286	277
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	5,397	281
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	5,499	285
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	5,578	288
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	5,654	289
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	5,746	293
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	5,836	296
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	5,931	304
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	6,035	311
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	6,145	319
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	6,257	319
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	6,368	318
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	6,477	319
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	6,586	321
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	6,695	324
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	6,804	327
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	6,912	331
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	7,019	335
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	7,127	343
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	7,234	353
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	7,343	361
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	7,452	366
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	7,560	372
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	7,666	380

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.