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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 ThailandLaosRomania
59,7485,28622,414
60,1655,39722,262
60,7465,49922,106
61,3235,57821,931
61,8845,65421,828
62,4255,74621,704
62,9565,83621,571
63,4675,93121,443
63,9376,03521,129
64,3816,14520,779
64,8046,25720,607
65,2086,36820,485
65,5996,47720,385
65,9706,58620,296
66,3326,69520,224
66,6736,80420,151
66,9756,91220,055
67,2507,01919,938
67,5067,12719,823
67,7507,23419,713
67,9757,34319,622
68,1807,45219,496
68,3667,56019,351
68,4577,66619,266

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

Romania

  • 1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
  • 1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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