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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Belgium	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,227	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,252	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,288	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,334	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,377	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,422	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,480	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,549	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,627	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,711	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,797	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,897	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	73	11,039	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	73	11,108	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	73	11,160	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	73	11,210	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	74	11,275	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	74	11,332	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	74	11,376	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	74	11,429	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	75	11,491	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	75	11,546	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	76	11,594	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	76	11,695	10,849

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.

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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