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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EcuadorRussiaCongo - Kinshasa
12,268147,21851,181
12,446146,60052,782
12,629145,98054,453
12,827145,31056,170
13,074144,65257,860
13,368144,07159,599
13,661143,52261,474
13,915143,05363,479
14,133142,80965,590
14,352142,74667,800
14,569142,78970,114
14,786142,85372,550
15,002142,96475,138
15,218143,20577,792
15,433143,51080,534
15,647146,09483,368
15,860146,41086,229
16,072146,67889,193
16,282146,84692,209
16,489146,83495,232
16,693146,76898,320
16,894146,463101,499
17,093145,849104,767
17,288146,693108,171

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.

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.