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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Hong Kong SAR China	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	70	6,587	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	71	6,646	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	71	6,695	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	72	6,725	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	72	6,712	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	72	6,765	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	72	6,794	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	72	6,838	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,897	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,938	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,953	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	73	7,004	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	73	7,052	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	73	7,130	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	73	7,159	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	73	7,209	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	74	7,271	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	74	7,316	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	74	7,372	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	74	7,432	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	75	7,487	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	75	7,460	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,392	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,387	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

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, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.