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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Türkiye	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	65,020	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	65,949	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	66,869	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	67,728	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	68,541	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	69,366	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	70,224	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	71,106	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	71,992	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	72,909	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	73,922	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	75,054	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	76,164	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	77,141	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	78,138	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	79,199	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	80,262	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	81,350	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	82,412	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	83,535	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	84,737	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	85,564	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	86,346	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	87,201	5,907

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

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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