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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Iceland	India
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	277	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	281	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	285	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	288	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	289	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	293	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	296	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	304	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	311	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	319	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	319	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	318	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	319	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	321	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	324	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	327	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	331	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	335	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	343	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	353	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	361	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	366	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	372	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	380	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.