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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	United States	Philippines	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	279,040	79,346	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	282,162	81,131	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	284,969	83,023	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	287,625	84,876	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	290,108	86,697	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	292,805	88,568	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	295,517	90,418	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	298,380	92,253	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	301,231	94,098	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	304,094	95,923	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	306,772	97,627	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	309,327	99,317	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	311,583	100,999	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	313,878	102,618	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	316,060	104,299	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	318,386	106,076	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	320,739	107,868	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	323,072	109,493	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	325,122	111,094	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	326,838	112,843	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	328,330	114,636	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	331,512	117,026	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	332,032	119,473	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	333,288	121,234	37,914

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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