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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Bangladesh	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	70	132,907	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	71	135,207	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	71	137,420	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	72	139,573	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	72	141,650	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	72	143,644	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	72	145,546	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	72	147,376	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	72	149,047	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	73	150,562	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	73	152,189	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	73	153,927	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	73	155,634	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	73	157,326	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	73	158,999	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	73	160,650	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	74	162,273	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	74	163,938	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	74	165,655	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	74	167,358	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	75	169,045	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	75	170,709	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	76	172,354	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	76	174,217	19,266

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 Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.