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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Ecuador	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	12,268	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	12,446	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	12,629	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	12,827	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	13,074	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	13,368	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	13,661	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	13,915	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	14,133	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	14,352	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	14,569	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	14,786	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	15,002	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	15,218	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	15,433	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	15,647	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	15,860	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	16,072	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	16,282	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	16,489	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	16,693	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	16,894	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	17,093	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	17,288	28,418

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.

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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