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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Armenia
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	11,075	2,970
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	11,405	2,966
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	11,828	2,965
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	12,380	2,962
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	12,829	2,955
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	13,178	2,953
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	13,540	2,951
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	13,917	2,948
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	14,309	2,946
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	14,722	2,943
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	15,152	2,941
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	15,600	2,939
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	16,064	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	16,563	2,934
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	17,072	2,932
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	17,575	2,928
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	18,094	2,924
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	18,621	2,919
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	19,157	2,913
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	19,698	2,907
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	20,242	2,899
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	20,788	2,891
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	21,336	2,881
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	21,889	2,871

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 Burkina Faso, Armenia; the database as a whole is cited above.