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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Brazil	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	70	174,320	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	71	176,902	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	71	179,389	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	72	181,721	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	72	183,970	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	72	186,165	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	72	188,330	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	72	190,438	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	72	192,450	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	73	194,458	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	73	196,464	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	73	198,408	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	73	200,152	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	73	201,894	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	203,614	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	73	205,358	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	207,148	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	74	208,859	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	74	210,537	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	74	212,258	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	75	213,940	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	75	215,577	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	76	216,720	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	76	217,718	10,437

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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