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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	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	2,348	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	2,403	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	2,457	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	2,510	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	2,562	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	2,613	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	2,663	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	2,713	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	2,764	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	2,816	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	2,871	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	2,928	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	2,986	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	3,047	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	3,110	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	3,174	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	3,240	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	3,307	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	3,375	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	3,444	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	3,512	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	3,582	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	3,651	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	3,696	2,059

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