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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	Oman	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	2,348	531
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	2,403	545
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	2,457	559
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	2,510	574
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	2,562	590
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	2,613	606
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,663	623
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,713	640
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,764	657
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,816	674
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,871	690
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,928	706
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,986	722
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,047	737
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,110	752
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,174	767
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,240	781
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,307	795
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,375	808
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,444	821
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,512	837
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,582	853
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,651	869
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,696	885

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