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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 ThailandSudanCongo - Kinshasa
59,74826,16851,181
60,16526,77152,782
60,74627,38754,453
61,32328,01756,170
61,88428,66257,860
62,42529,32159,599
62,95629,99661,474
63,46730,68663,479
63,93731,39365,590
64,38132,13767,800
64,80433,07870,114
65,20833,89172,550
65,59934,56875,138
65,97035,29377,792
66,33236,09380,534
66,67337,05883,368
66,97538,16586,229
67,25039,29489,193
67,50640,51292,209
67,75041,76495,232
67,97542,95298,320
68,18044,121101,499
68,36645,290104,767
68,45746,498108,171

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

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