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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	51,731

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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