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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Norway	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	4,463	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	4,492	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	4,515	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	4,539	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	4,566	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	4,593	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	4,624	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	4,662	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	4,710	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	4,769	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	4,830	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	4,890	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	4,954	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	5,020	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	5,081	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	5,138	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	5,191	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	5,237	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	5,278	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	5,313	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	5,349	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	5,380	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	5,409	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	5,458	17,288

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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.