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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Dominican RepublicEcuadorIndonesia
8,17512,268208,105
8,30112,446211,408
8,42712,629214,475
8,55312,827217,516
8,67813,074220,549
8,80113,368224,473
8,92413,661227,534
9,04413,915230,739
9,16414,133233,918
9,28114,352237,056
9,39814,569240,140
9,51214,786243,171
9,62715,002246,150
9,74215,218249,086
9,85515,433251,947
9,96515,647254,702
10,07215,860257,351
10,17716,072259,906
10,28116,282262,379
10,38516,489264,789
10,48716,693267,142
10,58716,894269,437
10,68617,093271,674
10,79317,288273,409

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

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.

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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