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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Greece	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,618	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,662	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,718	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,757	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,783	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,809	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,841	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,874	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,901	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,930	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,959	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,973	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	73	10,957	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	73	10,898	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	73	10,819	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	73	10,747	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	74	10,677	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	74	10,633	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	74	10,612	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	74	10,590	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	75	10,579	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	75	10,556	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	76	10,499	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	76	10,437	8,834

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

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

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; the database as a whole is cited above.