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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Germany	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	70	81,439	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	71	81,474	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	71	81,534	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	72	81,595	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	72	81,566	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	72	81,473	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	72	81,354	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	72	81,190	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	72	81,009	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	73	80,781	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	73	80,500	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	73	80,301	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	73	80,292	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	73	80,443	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	80,663	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	73	81,000	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	81,704	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	74	82,366	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	74	82,674	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	74	82,923	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	75	83,110	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	75	83,178	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	76	83,213	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	76	83,811	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.