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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	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	2,348	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	2,403	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	2,457	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	2,510	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	2,562	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	2,613	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,663	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,713	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,764	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,816	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,871	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,928	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,986	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,047	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,110	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,174	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,240	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,307	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,375	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,444	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,512	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,582	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,651	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,696	23,796

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.