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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Ecuador	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	12,268	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	12,446	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	12,629	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	12,827	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	13,074	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	13,368	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	13,661	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	13,915	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	14,133	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	14,352	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	14,569	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	14,786	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	15,002	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	15,218	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	15,433	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	15,647	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	15,860	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	16,072	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	16,282	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	16,489	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	16,693	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	16,894	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	17,093	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	17,288	146,693

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.

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.

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