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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Romania	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	70	22,414	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	71	22,262	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	71	22,106	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,931	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	72	21,828	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	72	21,704	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	72	21,571	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	72	21,443	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	72	21,129	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	73	20,779	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	73	20,607	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	73	20,485	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	73	20,385	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	73	20,296	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	73	20,224	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	73	20,151	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	74	20,055	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	74	19,938	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,823	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,713	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	75	19,622	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	75	19,496	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	76	19,351	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	76	19,266	40,364

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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