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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Spain	Ecuador	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	40,378	12,268	627
Dec 31, 2000	40,563	12,446	659
Dec 31, 2001	40,775	12,629	691
Dec 31, 2002	41,433	12,827	724
Dec 31, 2003	42,205	13,074	757
Dec 31, 2004	42,869	13,368	850
Dec 31, 2005	43,672	13,661	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	44,370	13,915	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	45,246	14,133	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	45,993	14,352	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	46,378	14,569	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	46,573	14,786	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	46,746	15,002	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	46,777	15,218	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	46,603	15,433	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	46,465	15,647	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	46,420	15,860	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	46,460	16,072	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	46,543	16,282	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	46,739	16,489	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	47,116	16,693	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	47,366	16,894	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	47,342	17,093	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	47,625	17,288	2,559

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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.