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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	United States	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	70	279,040	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	71	282,162	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	71	284,969	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	72	287,625	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	72	290,108	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	72	292,805	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	72	295,517	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	72	298,380	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	72	301,231	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	73	304,094	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	73	306,772	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	73	309,327	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	73	311,583	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	73	313,878	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	316,060	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	73	318,386	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	320,739	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	74	323,072	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	74	325,122	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	74	326,838	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	75	328,330	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	75	331,512	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	76	332,032	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	76	333,288	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.

All data sources

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.