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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Thailand	Mexico
Dec 31, 1999	70	59,748	97,242
Dec 31, 2000	71	60,165	98,403
Dec 31, 2001	71	60,746	99,599
Dec 31, 2002	72	61,323	100,863
Dec 31, 2003	72	61,884	102,132
Dec 31, 2004	72	62,425	103,334
Dec 31, 2005	72	62,956	104,508
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,467	105,738
Dec 31, 2007	72	63,937	107,083
Dec 31, 2008	73	64,381	108,554
Dec 31, 2009	73	64,804	110,061
Dec 31, 2010	73	65,208	111,468
Dec 31, 2011	73	65,599	112,826
Dec 31, 2012	73	65,970	114,163
Dec 31, 2013	73	66,332	115,471
Dec 31, 2014	73	66,673	116,757
Dec 31, 2015	74	66,975	118,017
Dec 31, 2016	74	67,250	117,444
Dec 31, 2017	74	67,506	118,799
Dec 31, 2018	74	67,750	120,289
Dec 31, 2019	75	67,975	121,872
Dec 31, 2020	75	68,180	123,260
Dec 31, 2021	76	68,366	124,462
Dec 31, 2022	76	68,457	125,247

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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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