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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Romania	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	22,414	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	22,262	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	22,106	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	21,931	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	21,828	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	21,704	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	21,571	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	21,443	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	21,129	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	20,779	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	20,607	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	20,485	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	20,385	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	20,296	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	20,224	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	20,151	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	20,055	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	19,938	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	19,823	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	19,713	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	19,622	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	19,496	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	19,351	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	19,266	5,185

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.