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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Ecuador	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	12,268	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	12,446	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	12,629	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,827	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	13,074	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,368	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,661	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,915	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,133	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,352	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	14,569	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	14,786	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	15,002	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	15,218	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	15,433	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	15,647	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	15,860	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	16,072	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	16,282	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	16,489	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	16,693	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	16,894	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	17,093	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	17,288	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

Zambia

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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