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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Portugal	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,144	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,215	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,288	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,344	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,383	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,408	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,427	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,446	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,467	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,482	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,492	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,497	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	73	10,481	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	73	10,439	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	73	10,382	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	73	10,326	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	74	10,283	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	74	10,251	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	74	10,226	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	74	10,209	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	75	10,212	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	75	10,223	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	76	10,214	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	76	10,200	11,695

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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