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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Laos	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	5,286	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	5,397	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	5,499	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	5,578	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	5,654	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	5,746	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	5,836	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	5,931	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	6,035	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	6,145	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	6,257	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	6,368	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	6,477	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	6,586	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	6,695	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	6,804	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	6,912	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	7,019	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	7,127	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	7,234	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	7,343	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	7,452	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	7,560	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	7,666	7,169

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.

No separate list is published for Laos, Libya; the database as a whole is cited above.