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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Germany	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	70	81,439	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	71	81,474	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	71	81,534	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	72	81,595	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	72	81,566	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	72	81,473	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	72	81,354	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	72	81,190	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	72	81,009	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	73	80,781	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	73	80,500	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	73	80,301	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	73	80,292	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	73	80,443	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	73	80,663	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	73	81,000	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	74	81,704	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	74	82,366	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	74	82,674	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	74	82,923	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	75	83,110	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	75	83,178	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	76	83,213	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	76	83,811	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.

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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.

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.