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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Belgium	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,227	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,252	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,288	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,334	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,377	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,422	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,480	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,549	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,627	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,711	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,797	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,897	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	73	11,039	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	73	11,108	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	73	11,160	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	73	11,210	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	74	11,275	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	74	11,332	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	74	11,376	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	74	11,429	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	75	11,491	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	75	11,546	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	76	11,594	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	76	11,695	19,715

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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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