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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Switzerland	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	70	7,258	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	71	7,296	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	71	7,332	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	72	7,384	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	72	7,438	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	72	7,488	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	72	7,532	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	72	7,579	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	72	7,647	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	73	7,738	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	73	7,825	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	73	7,884	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	73	7,959	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	73	8,044	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	8,137	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	73	8,237	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	74	8,332	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	74	8,423	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	74	8,502	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	74	8,565	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	75	8,626	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	75	8,689	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	76	8,756	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	76	8,834	2,748

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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