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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	19,266	7,666

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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