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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Dominica	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	70	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	71	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	71	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	72	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	72	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	72	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	72	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	72	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	72	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	73	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	73	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	73	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	73	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	73	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	73	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	73	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	74	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	74	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	74	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	74	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	75	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	75	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	76	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	76	20,985

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Syria

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.