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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Syria	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	70	15,930	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	71	16,329	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	71	16,730	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	72	17,132	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	72	17,534	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	72	17,942	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	72	18,423	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	72	19,252	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	72	20,493	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	73	21,221	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	73	21,542	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	73	22,050	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	73	22,458	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	73	22,258	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	73	20,901	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	73	19,318	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	74	18,272	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	74	17,669	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	74	17,327	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	74	17,601	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	75	18,440	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	75	19,241	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	76	20,226	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	76	20,985	19,266

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

Syria

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

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.

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