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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	19,715

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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