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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 DominicaPuerto RicoThailand
703,80059,748
713,81160,165
713,81960,746
723,82461,323
723,82661,884
723,82762,425
723,82262,956
723,80563,467
723,78363,937
733,76164,381
733,74164,804
733,72265,208
733,67965,599
733,63665,970
733,58966,332
733,53466,673
743,47366,975
743,41167,250
743,35267,506
743,29567,750
753,26867,975
753,24768,180
763,23268,366
763,22868,457

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

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.