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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Ecuador	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	70	12,268	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	71	12,446	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	71	12,629	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,827	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	72	13,074	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,368	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,661	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,915	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,133	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,352	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	73	14,569	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	73	14,786	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	73	15,002	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	73	15,218	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	73	15,433	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	73	15,647	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	74	15,860	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	74	16,072	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	74	16,282	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	74	16,489	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	75	16,693	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	75	16,894	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	76	17,093	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	76	17,288	273,409

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

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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