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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Bangladesh	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	70	132,907	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	71	135,207	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	71	137,420	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	72	139,573	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	72	141,650	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	72	143,644	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	72	145,546	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	72	147,376	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	72	149,047	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	73	150,562	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	73	152,189	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	73	153,927	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	73	155,634	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	73	157,326	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	73	158,999	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	73	160,650	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	74	162,273	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	74	163,938	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	74	165,655	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	74	167,358	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	75	169,045	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	75	170,709	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	76	172,354	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	76	174,217	10,849

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

Jordan

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
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.