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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Trinidad & Tobago	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	1,301	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	1,303	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	1,308	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	1,314	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	1,320	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	1,326	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	1,332	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	1,338	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	1,344	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	1,352	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	1,359	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	1,365	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	1,372	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	1,379	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	1,386	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	1,392	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	1,399	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	1,405	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	1,411	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	1,436	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	1,452	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	1,448	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	1,450	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	1,456	7,666

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.