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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Colombia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	70	38,365	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	71	38,911	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	71	39,411	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	72	39,918	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	72	40,416	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	72	40,899	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	72	41,374	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	72	41,862	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	72	42,324	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	73	42,781	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	73	43,264	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	73	43,771	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	73	44,225	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	73	44,660	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	73	45,081	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	73	45,846	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	74	46,290	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	74	46,796	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	74	47,385	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	74	48,222	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	75	49,326	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	75	50,283	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	76	50,978	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	76	51,332	68,457

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.

All data sources

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

Colombia

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 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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