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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	China	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	1,248,899	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	1,258,401	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	1,267,178	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	1,275,379	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	1,283,064	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	1,290,620	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	1,298,245	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	1,305,116	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	1,311,877	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	1,318,559	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	1,324,993	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	1,331,357	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	1,339,549	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	1,349,537	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	1,357,520	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	1,366,654	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	1,373,406	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	1,382,401	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	1,390,136	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	1,395,398	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	1,400,035	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	1,402,060	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	1,402,537	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	1,401,693	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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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