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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Germany	Colombia	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	81,439	38,365	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	81,474	38,911	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	81,534	39,411	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	81,595	39,918	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	81,566	40,416	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	81,473	40,899	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	81,354	41,374	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	81,190	41,862	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	81,009	42,324	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	80,781	42,781	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	80,500	43,264	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	80,301	43,771	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	80,292	44,225	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	80,443	44,660	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,663	45,081	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	81,000	45,846	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	81,704	46,290	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	82,366	46,796	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	82,674	47,385	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	82,923	48,222	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	83,110	49,326	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	83,178	50,283	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	83,213	50,978	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	83,811	51,332	10,200

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Colombia

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 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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