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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	Serbia
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	7,611
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	7,587
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	7,574
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	7,570
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	7,551
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	7,533
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	7,510
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	7,481
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	7,451
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	7,419
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	7,389
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	7,304
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	7,269
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	7,234
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	7,199
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	7,162
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	7,124
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	7,087
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	7,048
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	7,010
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	6,964
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	6,898
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	6,833

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.

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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