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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 ThailandOmanCongo - Kinshasa
59,7482,34851,181
60,1652,40352,782
60,7462,45754,453
61,3232,51056,170
61,8842,56257,860
62,4252,61359,599
62,9562,66361,474
63,4672,71363,479
63,9372,76465,590
64,3812,81667,800
64,8042,87170,114
65,2082,92872,550
65,5992,98675,138
65,9703,04777,792
66,3323,11080,534
66,6733,17483,368
66,9753,24086,229
67,2503,30789,193
67,5063,37592,209
67,7503,44495,232
67,9753,51298,320
68,1803,582101,499
68,3663,651104,767
68,4573,696108,171

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