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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Greece	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	10,618	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	10,662	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	10,718	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	10,757	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	10,783	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	10,809	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	10,841	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	10,874	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	10,901	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	10,930	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	10,959	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	10,973	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	10,957	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	10,898	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	10,819	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	10,747	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	10,677	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	10,633	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	10,612	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	10,590	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	10,579	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	10,556	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	10,499	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	10,437	3,876

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.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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