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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Argentina	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	70	36,924	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	71	37,336	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	71	37,714	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,079	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,438	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,800	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	72	39,171	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	72	39,556	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	72	39,947	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	73	40,343	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	73	40,736	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	73	41,401	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	73	41,881	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	73	42,360	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	73	42,836	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	73	43,310	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	74	43,779	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	74	44,245	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	74	44,706	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	74	45,162	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	75	45,613	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	75	46,058	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	76	46,496	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	76	46,736	17,288

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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