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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaPeruPhilippines
7020,96379,346
7121,29181,131
7121,63183,023
7221,98084,876
7222,33986,697
7222,70788,568
7223,05590,418
7223,38092,253
7223,70894,098
7323,94495,923
7324,08797,627
7324,22899,317
7324,364100,999
7324,491102,618
7324,607104,299
7324,714106,076
7424,812107,868
7424,904109,493
7424,999111,094
7425,403112,843
7525,966114,636
7526,308117,026
7626,508119,473
7626,771121,234

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

Peru

  • 1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
  • 1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
  • 1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
  • 1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
  • 1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
  • 1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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