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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	3,811	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	3,901	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	3,919	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	3,923	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	3,940	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	3,975	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	3,991	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	3,993	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	3,990	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	3,987	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	3,985	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	3,983	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	3,980	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,977	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,973	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,968	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,963	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,957	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,951	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,944	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,937	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,929	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,921	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,876	37,914

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,