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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Türkiye	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	65,020	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	65,949	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	66,869	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	67,728	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	68,541	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	69,366	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	70,224	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	71,106	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	71,992	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	72,909	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	73,922	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	75,054	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	76,164	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,141	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	78,138	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	79,199	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	80,262	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	81,350	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	82,412	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	83,535	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	84,737	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	85,564	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	86,346	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	87,201	5,042

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 Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.