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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Nepal	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	70	23,087	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	71	23,487	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	71	23,887	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	72	24,273	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	72	24,645	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	72	24,989	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	72	25,255	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	72	25,484	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	72	25,732	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	73	25,998	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	73	26,298	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	73	26,664	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	73	27,081	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	73	27,505	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	27,917	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	73	28,311	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	28,678	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	74	29,034	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	74	29,384	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	74	29,718	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	75	30,057	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	75	30,595	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	76	31,311	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	76	31,845	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

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, Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.