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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 ThailandLuxembourgCongo - Kinshasa
59,74843351,181
60,16543852,782
60,74644354,453
61,32344856,170
61,88445457,860
62,42546059,599
62,95646761,474
63,46747463,479
63,93748265,590
64,38149167,800
64,80450070,114
65,20850972,550
65,59952175,138
65,97053377,792
66,33254780,534
66,67356083,368
66,97557186,229
67,25058689,193
67,50659992,209
67,75061095,232
67,97562398,320
68,180633101,499
68,366643104,767
68,457651108,171

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

No separate list is published for Luxembourg, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.