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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	Dominican Republic	Albania	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	3,085	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	3,065	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	3,047	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	3,038	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	3,026	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	3,014	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	2,998	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	2,979	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	2,957	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	2,934	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	2,915	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	2,900	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	2,892	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	2,888	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	2,882	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	2,876	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	2,868	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	2,863	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	2,861	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	2,854	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	2,842	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	2,825	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	2,799	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	2,787	32,956

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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

No separate list is published for Dominican Republic, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.