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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Greece	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,618	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,662	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,718	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,757	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,783	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,809	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,841	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,874	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,901	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,930	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,959	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,973	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	73	10,957	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	73	10,898	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	73	10,819	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	73	10,747	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	74	10,677	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	74	10,633	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	74	10,612	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	74	10,590	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	75	10,579	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	75	10,556	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	76	10,499	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	76	10,437	124,762

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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