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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Thailand	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	70	59,748	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	71	60,165	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	71	60,746	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	72	61,323	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	72	61,884	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	72	62,425	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	72	62,956	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,467	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	72	63,937	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	73	64,381	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	73	64,804	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	73	65,208	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	73	65,599	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	73	65,970	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	73	66,332	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	73	66,673	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	74	66,975	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	74	67,250	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	74	67,506	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	74	67,750	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	75	67,975	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	75	68,180	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	76	68,366	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	76	68,457	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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