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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Iceland	Australia
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	277	18,692
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	281	18,907
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	285	19,151
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	288	19,371
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	289	19,595
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	293	19,805
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	296	20,048
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	304	20,320
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	311	20,694
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	319	21,113
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	319	21,553
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	318	21,891
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	319	22,197
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	321	22,588
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	324	22,980
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	327	23,326
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	331	23,664
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	335	24,036
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	343	24,445
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	353	24,823
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	361	25,204
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	366	25,529
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	372	25,574
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	380	25,826

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.