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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 ThailandMoldovaCongo - Kinshasa
59,7484,24451,181
60,1654,19952,782
60,7464,15454,453
61,3234,10856,170
61,8844,05957,860
62,4254,01359,599
62,9563,96661,474
63,4673,91963,479
63,9373,87365,590
64,3813,82967,800
64,8043,78870,114
65,2083,74872,550
65,5993,70975,138
65,9703,67177,792
66,3323,63380,534
66,6733,59583,368
66,9753,55886,229
67,2503,52289,193
67,5063,48592,209
67,7503,44895,232
67,9753,41298,320
68,1803,376101,499
68,3663,339104,767
68,4573,570108,171

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 Moldova, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.