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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	3,811	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	3,901	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	3,919	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	3,923	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	3,940	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	3,975	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	3,991	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	3,993	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	3,990	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	3,987	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	3,985	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	3,983	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	3,980	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,977	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,973	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,968	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,963	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,957	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,951	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,944	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,937	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,929	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,921	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,876	8,834

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK