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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	South Korea	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	70	46,617	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	71	47,008	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	71	47,370	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	72	47,645	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	72	47,892	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	72	48,083	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	72	48,185	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	72	48,438	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	72	48,684	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	73	49,055	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	73	49,308	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	73	49,554	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	73	49,937	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	73	50,200	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	73	50,429	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	73	50,747	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	74	51,015	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	74	51,218	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	74	51,362	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	74	51,585	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	75	51,765	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	75	51,836	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	76	51,745	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	76	51,731	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.

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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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; the database as a whole is cited above.