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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	China
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	1,401,693

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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