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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	Germany	Belgium	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	81,439	10,227	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	81,474	10,252	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	81,534	10,288	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	81,595	10,334	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	81,566	10,377	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	81,473	10,422	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	81,354	10,480	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	81,190	10,549	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	81,009	10,627	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	80,781	10,711	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	80,500	10,797	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	80,301	10,897	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	80,292	11,039	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	80,443	11,108	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,663	11,160	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	81,000	11,210	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	81,704	11,275	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	82,366	11,332	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	82,674	11,376	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	82,923	11,429	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	83,110	11,491	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	83,178	11,546	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	83,213	11,594	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	83,811	11,695	10,849

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.

All data sources

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

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Jordan

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
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 Dominican Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.