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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	United States	Thailand	Bulgaria
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	279,040	59,748	8,091
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	282,162	60,165	8,052
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	284,969	60,746	7,798
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	287,625	61,323	7,755
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	290,108	61,884	7,710
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	292,805	62,425	7,668
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	295,517	62,956	7,628
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	298,380	63,467	7,587
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	301,231	63,937	7,549
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	304,094	64,381	7,513
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	306,772	64,804	7,475
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	309,327	65,208	7,425
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	311,583	65,599	7,242
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	313,878	65,970	7,200
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	316,060	66,332	7,160
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	318,386	66,673	7,119
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	320,739	66,975	7,074
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	323,072	67,250	7,024
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	325,122	67,506	6,973
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	326,838	67,750	6,923
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	328,330	67,975	6,874
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	331,512	68,180	6,833
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	332,032	68,366	6,778
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	333,288	68,457	6,720

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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