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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Mexico	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	70	97,242	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	71	98,403	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	71	99,599	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	72	100,863	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	72	102,132	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	72	103,334	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	72	104,508	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	72	105,738	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	72	107,083	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	73	108,554	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	73	110,061	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	73	111,468	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	73	112,826	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	73	114,163	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	115,471	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	73	116,757	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	118,017	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	74	117,444	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	74	118,799	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	74	120,289	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	75	121,872	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	75	123,260	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	76	124,462	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	76	125,247	10,437

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

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

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