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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Mexico	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	70	97,242	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	71	98,403	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	71	99,599	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	72	100,863	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	72	102,132	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	72	103,334	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	72	104,508	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	72	105,738	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	72	107,083	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	73	108,554	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	73	110,061	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	73	111,468	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	73	112,826	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	73	114,163	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	73	115,471	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	73	116,757	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	74	118,017	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	74	117,444	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	74	118,799	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	74	120,289	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	75	121,872	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	75	123,260	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	76	124,462	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	76	125,247	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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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.