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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Oman	Mauritius
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	2,348	1,173
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	2,403	1,186
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	2,457	1,199
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	2,510	1,211
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	2,562	1,222
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	2,613	1,233
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	2,663	1,243
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	2,713	1,253
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	2,764	1,261
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	2,816	1,269
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	2,871	1,276
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	2,928	1,282
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	2,986	1,286
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	3,047	1,288
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	3,110	1,291
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	3,174	1,294
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	3,240	1,296
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	3,307	1,298
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	3,375	1,300
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	3,444	1,302
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	3,512	1,304
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	3,582	1,305
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	3,651	1,307
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	3,696	1,307

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