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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Philippines	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	79,346	433
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	81,131	438
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	83,023	443
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	84,876	448
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	86,697	454
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	88,568	460
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	90,418	467
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	92,253	474
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	94,098	482
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	95,923	491
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	97,627	500
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	99,317	509
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	100,999	521
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	102,618	533
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	104,299	547
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	106,076	560
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	107,868	571
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	109,493	586
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	111,094	599
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	112,843	610
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	114,636	623
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	117,026	633
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	119,473	643
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	121,234	651

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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