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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Japan	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	70	126,512	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	71	126,755	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	71	127,056	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	72	127,324	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	72	127,558	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	72	127,658	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	72	127,679	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	72	127,762	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	72	127,904	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	73	127,969	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	73	127,958	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	73	127,967	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	73	127,755	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	73	127,476	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	73	127,257	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	73	127,186	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	74	127,034	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	74	126,857	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	74	126,631	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	74	126,368	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	75	126,092	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	75	125,634	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	76	125,427	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	76	124,762	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

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.

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.