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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	11,075	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	11,405	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	11,828	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	12,380	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	12,829	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	13,178	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	13,540	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	13,917	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	14,309	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	14,722	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	15,152	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	15,600	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	16,064	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	16,563	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	17,072	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	17,575	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	18,094	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	18,621	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	19,157	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	19,698	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	20,242	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	20,788	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	21,336	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	21,889	9,690

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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