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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Kenya
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	11,075	30,192
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	11,405	31,025
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	11,828	31,919
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	12,380	32,865
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	12,829	33,846
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	13,178	34,880
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	13,540	35,961
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	13,917	37,093
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	14,309	38,248
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	14,722	39,441
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	15,152	40,668
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	15,600	41,900
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	16,064	43,198
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	16,563	44,470
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	17,072	45,639
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	17,575	46,808
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	18,094	47,983
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	18,621	49,095
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	19,157	50,201
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	19,698	51,357
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	20,242	52,522
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	20,788	53,691
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	21,336	54,867
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	21,889	55,924

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.

Kenya

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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