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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Dominica	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	70	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	71	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	71	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	72	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	72	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	72	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	72	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	72	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	72	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	73	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	73	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	73	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	73	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	73	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	73	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	73	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	74	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	74	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	74	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	74	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	75	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	75	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	76	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	76	3,422

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Uruguay

1800-1870: 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)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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