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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Moldova	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	4,244	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	4,199	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	4,154	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	4,108	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	4,059	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	4,013	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	3,966	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	3,919	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	3,873	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	3,829	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	3,788	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	3,748	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	3,709	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,671	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,633	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,595	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,558	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,522	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,485	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,448	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,412	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,376	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,339	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,570	3,696

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 Moldova, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.