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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	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	4,244	277
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	4,199	281
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	4,154	285
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	4,108	288
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	4,059	289
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	4,013	293
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	3,966	296
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	3,919	304
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	3,873	311
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	3,829	319
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	3,788	319
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	3,748	318
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	3,709	319
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,671	321
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,633	324
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,595	327
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,558	331
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,522	335
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,485	343
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,448	353
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,412	361
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,376	366
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,339	372
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,570	380

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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

No separate list is published for Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.