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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	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	31,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.