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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 ThailandChadCongo - Kinshasa
59,7487,55951,181
60,1657,82152,782
60,7468,09254,453
61,3238,39556,170
61,8848,76357,860
62,4259,19159,599
62,9569,59461,474
63,4679,96763,479
63,93710,33865,590
64,38110,72867,800
64,80411,13970,114
65,20811,55072,550
65,59911,98375,138
65,97012,42777,792
66,33212,89580,534
66,67313,37983,368
66,97513,82386,229
67,25014,27789,193
67,50614,76592,209
67,75015,25295,232
67,97515,75098,320
68,18016,257101,499
68,36616,776104,767
68,45717,307108,171

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 Chad, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.