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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	8,834

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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