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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Hong Kong SAR China	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	70	6,587	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	71	6,646	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	71	6,695	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	72	6,725	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	72	6,712	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	72	6,765	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	72	6,794	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	72	6,838	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,897	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,938	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,953	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	73	7,004	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	73	7,052	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	73	7,130	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	73	7,159	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	73	7,209	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	74	7,271	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	74	7,316	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	74	7,372	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	74	7,432	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	75	7,487	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	75	7,460	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,392	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,387	4,713

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

Lebanon

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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.