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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	France	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	70	60,396	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	71	60,811	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	71	61,255	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	72	61,703	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	72	62,141	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	72	62,600	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	72	63,073	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,513	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	72	63,906	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	73	64,264	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	73	64,594	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	73	64,913	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	73	65,231	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	73	65,552	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	73	65,891	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	73	66,212	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	74	66,480	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	74	66,730	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	74	67,015	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	74	67,347	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	75	67,660	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	75	67,901	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	76	68,114	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	76	68,387	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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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