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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	Mexico
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	97,242
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	98,403
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	99,599
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	100,863
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	102,132
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	103,334
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	104,508
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	105,738
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	107,083
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	108,554
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	110,061
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	111,468
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	112,826
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	114,163
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	115,471
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	116,757
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	118,017
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	117,444
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	118,799
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	120,289
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	121,872
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	123,260
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	124,462
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	125,247

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.

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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