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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Türkiye	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	65,020	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	65,949	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	66,869	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	67,728	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	68,541	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	69,366	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	70,224	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	71,106	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	71,992	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	72,909	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	73,922	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	75,054	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	76,164	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,141	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	78,138	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	79,199	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	80,262	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	81,350	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	82,412	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	83,535	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	84,737	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	85,564	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	86,346	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	87,201	1,330

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.

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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