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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Bangladesh	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	132,907	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	135,207	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	137,420	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	139,573	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	141,650	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	143,644	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	145,546	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	147,376	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	149,047	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	150,562	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	152,189	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	153,927	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	155,634	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	157,326	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	158,999	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	160,650	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	162,273	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	163,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	165,655	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	167,358	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	169,045	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	170,709	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	172,354	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	174,217	108,171

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.