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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Dominica	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	277	70	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	281	71	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	285	71	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	288	72	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	289	72	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	293	72	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	296	72	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	304	72	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	311	72	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	319	73	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	73	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	318	73	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	319	73	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	321	73	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	324	73	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	327	73	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	331	74	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	335	74	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	343	74	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	353	74	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	361	75	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	366	75	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	372	76	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	380	76	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.