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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ThailandSerbiaCongo - Kinshasa
59,7487,61151,181
60,1657,58752,782
60,7467,57454,453
61,3237,57056,170
61,8847,55157,860
62,4257,53359,599
62,9567,51061,474
63,4677,48163,479
63,9377,45165,590
64,3817,41967,800
64,8047,38970,114
65,2087,36072,550
65,5997,30475,138
65,9707,26977,792
66,3327,23480,534
66,6737,19983,368
66,9757,16286,229
67,2507,12489,193
67,5067,08792,209
67,7507,04895,232
67,9757,01098,320
68,1806,964101,499
68,3666,898104,767
68,4576,833108,171

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

Serbia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.