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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Romania	Dominican Republic
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	22,414	8,175
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	22,262	8,301
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	22,106	8,427
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	21,931	8,553
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	21,828	8,678
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	21,704	8,801
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	21,571	8,924
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	21,443	9,044
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	21,129	9,164
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	20,779	9,281
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	20,607	9,398
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	20,485	9,512
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	20,385	9,627
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	20,296	9,742
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	20,224	9,855
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	20,151	9,965
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	20,055	10,072
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	19,938	10,177
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	19,823	10,281
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	19,713	10,385
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	19,622	10,487
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	19,496	10,587
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	19,351	10,686
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	19,266	10,793

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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