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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Moldova	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	4,244	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	4,199	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	4,154	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	4,108	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	4,059	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	4,013	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	3,966	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	3,919	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	3,873	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	3,829	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	3,788	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	3,748	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	3,709	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,671	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,633	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,595	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,558	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,522	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,485	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,448	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,412	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,376	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,339	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,570	117,924

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, Ethiopia; the database as a whole is cited above.