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

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.