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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Belgium	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,227	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,252	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,288	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,334	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,377	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,422	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,480	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,549	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,627	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,711	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,797	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,897	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	73	11,039	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	73	11,108	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	73	11,160	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	73	11,210	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	74	11,275	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	74	11,332	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	74	11,376	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	74	11,429	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	75	11,491	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	75	11,546	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	76	11,594	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	76	11,695	146,693

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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