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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Dominican Republic	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,175	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,301	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,427	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,553	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,678	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,801	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	8,924	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	9,044	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	9,164	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	9,281	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	9,398	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,512	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,627	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,742	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	9,855	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	9,965	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,072	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,177	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,281	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,385	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,487	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,587	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,686	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,793	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.

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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.

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 Dominican Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.