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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Oman	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	2,348	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	2,403	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	2,457	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	2,510	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	2,562	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	2,613	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	2,663	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	2,713	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	2,764	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	2,816	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	2,871	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	2,928	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	2,986	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,047	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,110	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,174	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,240	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,307	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,375	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,444	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,512	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,582	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,651	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,696	40,364

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.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.