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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Barbados	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	273	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	274	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	275	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	276	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	278	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	279	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	280	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	281	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	282	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	283	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	285	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	286	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	287	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	288	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	289	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	290	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	291	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	291	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	292	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	293	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	294	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	294	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	295	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	295	17,709

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.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.