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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date UzbekistanCongo - KinshasaThailand
24,70151,18159,748
25,04252,78260,165
25,37254,45360,746
25,69656,17061,323
25,99257,86061,884
26,26859,59962,425
26,54061,47462,956
26,81263,47963,467
27,08165,59063,937
27,34767,80064,381
27,60970,11464,804
27,86972,55065,208
28,13275,13865,599
28,39877,79265,970
28,66680,53466,332
28,93483,36866,673
29,20586,22966,975
29,48089,19367,250
29,75692,20967,506
30,03195,23267,750
30,30598,32067,975
30,576101,49968,180
30,843104,76768,366
31,337108,17168,457

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