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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Jordan	United Arab Emirates
Dec 31, 1999	70	4,591	3,101
Dec 31, 2000	71	4,700	3,284
Dec 31, 2001	71	4,811	3,458
Dec 31, 2002	72	4,923	3,613
Dec 31, 2003	72	5,037	3,754
Dec 31, 2004	72	5,161	3,882
Dec 31, 2005	72	5,295	4,000
Dec 31, 2006	72	5,765	4,532
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,243	5,623
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,397	7,277
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,538	8,164
Dec 31, 2010	73	6,680	8,152
Dec 31, 2011	73	6,840	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	73	6,952	8,747
Dec 31, 2013	73	7,706	9,077
Dec 31, 2014	73	8,839	9,321
Dec 31, 2015	74	9,506	9,461
Dec 31, 2016	74	9,863	9,587
Dec 31, 2017	74	10,066	9,699
Dec 31, 2018	74	10,273	9,796
Dec 31, 2019	75	10,480	9,879
Dec 31, 2020	75	10,628	9,953
Dec 31, 2021	76	10,716	10,018
Dec 31, 2022	76	10,849	10,099

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

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, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.