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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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

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

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