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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Ecuador	Sweden
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	12,268	8,858
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	12,446	8,872
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	12,629	8,896
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	12,827	8,925
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	13,074	8,958
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	13,368	8,994
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	13,661	9,030
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	13,915	9,081
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	14,133	9,148
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	14,352	9,220
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	14,569	9,299
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	14,786	9,378
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	15,002	9,449
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	15,218	9,519
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	15,433	9,600
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	15,647	9,696
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	15,860	9,799
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	16,072	9,923
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	16,282	10,058
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	16,489	10,175
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	16,693	10,279
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	16,894	10,354
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	17,093	10,416
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	17,288	10,487

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.

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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