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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Sudan	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	26,168	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	26,771	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	27,387	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	28,017	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	28,662	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	29,321	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	29,996	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	30,686	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	31,393	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	32,137	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	33,078	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	33,891	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	34,568	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	35,293	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	36,093	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	37,058	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	38,165	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	39,294	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	40,512	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	41,764	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	42,952	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	44,121	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	45,290	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	46,498	2,787

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 Sudan, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.