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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Uganda	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	23,408	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	24,195	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	24,992	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	25,846	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	26,661	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	27,414	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	28,200	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	29,021	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	29,846	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	30,647	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	31,469	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	32,343	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	33,257	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	34,234	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	35,271	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	36,419	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	37,673	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	39,157	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	40,879	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	42,329	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	43,639	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	45,120	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	46,645	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	48,065	108,171

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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