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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Russia	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	147,218	627
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	146,600	659
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	145,980	691
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	145,310	724
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	144,652	757
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	144,071	850
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	143,522	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	143,053	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	142,809	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	142,746	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	142,789	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	142,853	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	142,964	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	143,205	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	143,510	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	146,094	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	146,410	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	146,678	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	146,846	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	146,834	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	146,768	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	146,463	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	145,849	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	146,693	2,559

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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