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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	1,883

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 Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.