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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Dominica
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	70
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	71
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	71
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	72
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	72
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	72
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	72
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	72
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	72
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	73
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	73
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	73
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	73
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	73
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	73
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	73
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	74
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	74
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	74
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	74
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	75
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	75
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	76
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	76

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.

Jordan

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
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.