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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Albania	Niger
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	3,085	10,424
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	3,065	10,785
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	3,047	11,170
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	3,038	11,580
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	3,026	12,015
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	3,014	12,472
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	2,998	12,954
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	2,979	13,459
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	2,957	13,986
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	2,934	14,532
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	2,915	15,092
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	2,900	15,669
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	2,892	16,263
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	2,888	16,903
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	2,882	17,569
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	2,876	18,242
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	2,868	18,957
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	2,863	19,708
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	2,861	20,462
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	2,854	21,228
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	2,842	22,023
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	2,825	22,842
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	2,799	23,691
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	2,787	24,587

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Albania, Niger; the database as a whole is cited above.