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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	South Korea	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	70	46,617	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	71	47,008	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	71	47,370	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	72	47,645	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	72	47,892	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	72	48,083	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	72	48,185	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	72	48,438	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	72	48,684	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	73	49,055	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	73	49,308	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	73	49,554	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	73	49,937	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	73	50,200	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	73	50,429	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	73	50,747	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	74	51,015	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	74	51,218	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	74	51,362	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	74	51,585	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	75	51,765	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	75	51,836	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	76	51,745	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	76	51,731	2,048

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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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