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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Italy	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	70	56,940	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	71	56,966	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	71	57,004	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	72	57,114	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	72	57,423	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	72	57,852	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	72	58,191	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	72	58,424	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	72	58,781	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	73	59,236	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	73	59,580	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	73	59,844	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	73	60,052	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	73	60,216	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	73	60,337	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	73	60,346	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	74	60,255	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	74	60,140	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	74	60,027	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	74	59,902	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	75	59,754	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	75	59,464	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	76	59,158	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	76	58,966	46,736

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.

All data sources

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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; the database as a whole is cited above.