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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Argentina	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	70	36,924	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	71	37,336	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	71	37,714	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,079	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,438	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,800	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	72	39,171	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	72	39,556	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	72	39,947	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	73	40,343	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	73	40,736	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	73	41,401	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	73	41,881	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	73	42,360	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	73	42,836	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	73	43,310	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	74	43,779	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	74	44,245	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	74	44,706	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	74	45,162	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	75	45,613	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	75	46,058	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	76	46,496	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	76	46,736	3,228

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

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