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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	11,075	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	11,405	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	11,828	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	12,380	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	12,829	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	13,178	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	13,540	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	13,917	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	14,309	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	14,722	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	15,152	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	15,600	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	16,064	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	16,563	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	17,072	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	17,575	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	18,094	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	18,621	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	19,157	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	19,698	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	20,242	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	20,788	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	21,336	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	21,889	29,417

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, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.