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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Iceland	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	70	277	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	71	281	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	71	285	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	72	288	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	72	289	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	72	293	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	72	296	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	72	304	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	72	311	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	73	319	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	73	319	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	73	318	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	73	319	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	73	321	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	73	324	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	73	327	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	74	331	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	74	335	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	74	343	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	74	353	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	75	361	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	75	366	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	76	372	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	76	380	10,200

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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