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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Romania	Jamaica
Dec 31, 1999	70	22,414	2,643
Dec 31, 2000	71	22,262	2,670
Dec 31, 2001	71	22,106	2,694
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,931	2,707
Dec 31, 2003	72	21,828	2,709
Dec 31, 2004	72	21,704	2,711
Dec 31, 2005	72	21,571	2,711
Dec 31, 2006	72	21,443	2,710
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,129	2,708
Dec 31, 2008	73	20,779	2,705
Dec 31, 2009	73	20,607	2,702
Dec 31, 2010	73	20,485	2,697
Dec 31, 2011	73	20,385	2,692
Dec 31, 2012	73	20,296	2,686
Dec 31, 2013	73	20,224	2,682
Dec 31, 2014	73	20,151	2,678
Dec 31, 2015	74	20,055	2,675
Dec 31, 2016	74	19,938	2,674
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,823	2,673
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,713	2,673
Dec 31, 2019	75	19,622	2,674
Dec 31, 2020	75	19,496	2,675
Dec 31, 2021	76	19,351	2,676
Dec 31, 2022	76	19,266	2,676

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Jamaica

1850 - 1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)

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