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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	Moldova	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	4,244	422
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	4,199	430
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	4,154	438
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	4,108	447
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	4,059	455
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	4,013	463
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	3,966	471
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	3,919	478
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	3,873	486
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	3,829	494
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	3,788	501
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	3,748	509
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	3,709	516
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,671	524
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,633	531
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,595	539
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,558	546
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,522	553
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,485	562
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,448	568
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,412	574
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,376	580
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,339	585
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,570	590

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, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.