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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	Qatar	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	627	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	659	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	691	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	724	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	757	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	850	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	1,001	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	1,153	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	1,306	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	1,460	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	1,615	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	1,770	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	1,904	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	2,010	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	2,103	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	2,187	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	2,261	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	2,326	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	2,384	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	2,435	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	2,480	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	2,519	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	2,553	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	2,559	3,570

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 Qatar, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.