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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaLebanonThailand
703,46059,748
713,49960,165
713,55460,746
723,61061,323
723,66561,884
723,72162,425
723,77762,956
723,85363,467
723,95463,937
734,03664,381
734,08264,804
734,09765,208
734,11565,599
734,20665,970
734,69666,332
735,36566,673
745,64066,975
745,68867,250
745,68067,506
745,56267,750
755,33167,975
754,98668,180
764,80268,366
764,71368,457

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

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

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.