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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Japan	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	70	126,512	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	71	126,755	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	71	127,056	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	72	127,324	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	72	127,558	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	72	127,658	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	72	127,679	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	72	127,762	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	72	127,904	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	73	127,969	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	73	127,958	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	73	127,967	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	73	127,755	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	73	127,476	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	73	127,257	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	73	127,186	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	74	127,034	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	74	126,857	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	74	126,631	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	74	126,368	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	75	126,092	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	75	125,634	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	76	125,427	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	76	124,762	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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