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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	Turkmenistan	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	4,324	59,748	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	4,385	60,165	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	4,444	60,746	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	4,502	61,323	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	4,556	61,884	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	4,608	62,425	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	4,664	62,956	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	4,719	63,467	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	4,773	63,937	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	4,828	64,381	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	4,884	64,804	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	4,940	65,208	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	4,996	65,599	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	5,053	65,970	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	5,110	66,332	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	5,169	66,673	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	5,227	66,975	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	5,287	67,250	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	5,346	67,506	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	5,405	67,750	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	5,464	67,975	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	5,522	68,180	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	5,579	68,366	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	5,657	68,457	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.

All data sources

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