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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Russia	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	70	147,218	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	71	146,600	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	71	145,980	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	72	145,310	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	72	144,652	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	72	144,071	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	72	143,522	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	72	143,053	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	72	142,809	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	73	142,746	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	73	142,789	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	73	142,853	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	73	142,964	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	73	143,205	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	73	143,510	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	73	146,094	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	74	146,410	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	74	146,678	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	74	146,846	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	74	146,834	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	75	146,768	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	75	146,463	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	76	145,849	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	76	146,693	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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.