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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Thailand	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	70	59,748	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	71	60,165	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	71	60,746	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	72	61,323	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	72	61,884	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	72	62,425	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	72	62,956	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,467	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	72	63,937	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	73	64,381	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	73	64,804	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	73	65,208	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	73	65,599	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	73	65,970	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	73	66,332	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	73	66,673	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	74	66,975	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	74	67,250	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	74	67,506	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	74	67,750	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	75	67,975	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	75	68,180	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	76	68,366	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	76	68,457	110,593

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

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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

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