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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Poland	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	38,358	433
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	38,344	438
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	38,339	443
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	38,320	448
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	38,283	454
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	38,268	460
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	38,249	467
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	38,220	474
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	38,204	482
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	38,204	491
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	38,572	500
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	38,606	509
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	38,615	521
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	38,623	533
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	38,591	547
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	38,573	560
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	38,544	571
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	38,516	586
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	38,511	599
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	38,502	610
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	38,475	623
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	38,443	633
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	38,250	643
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	37,914	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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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