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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Türkiye	Italy
Dec 31, 1999	70	65,020	56,940
Dec 31, 2000	71	65,949	56,966
Dec 31, 2001	71	66,869	57,004
Dec 31, 2002	72	67,728	57,114
Dec 31, 2003	72	68,541	57,423
Dec 31, 2004	72	69,366	57,852
Dec 31, 2005	72	70,224	58,191
Dec 31, 2006	72	71,106	58,424
Dec 31, 2007	72	71,992	58,781
Dec 31, 2008	73	72,909	59,236
Dec 31, 2009	73	73,922	59,580
Dec 31, 2010	73	75,054	59,844
Dec 31, 2011	73	76,164	60,052
Dec 31, 2012	73	77,141	60,216
Dec 31, 2013	73	78,138	60,337
Dec 31, 2014	73	79,199	60,346
Dec 31, 2015	74	80,262	60,255
Dec 31, 2016	74	81,350	60,140
Dec 31, 2017	74	82,412	60,027
Dec 31, 2018	74	83,535	59,902
Dec 31, 2019	75	84,737	59,754
Dec 31, 2020	75	85,564	59,464
Dec 31, 2021	76	86,346	59,158
Dec 31, 2022	76	87,201	58,966

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

Türkiye

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 - 1820: 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; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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