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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Saudi Arabia	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	70	19,964	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	71	20,426	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	71	20,956	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,549	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	72	22,189	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	72	22,850	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	72	23,516	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	72	24,178	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	72	24,841	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	73	25,518	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	73	26,227	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	73	27,068	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	73	27,810	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	73	28,516	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	73	29,220	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	73	29,936	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	74	30,646	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	74	31,360	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	74	32,184	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	74	32,869	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	75	33,661	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	75	34,542	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	76	33,651	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	76	34,081	68,457

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

Saudi Arabia

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.