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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Oman	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	2,348	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	2,403	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	2,457	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	2,510	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	2,562	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	2,613	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	2,663	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	2,713	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	2,764	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	2,816	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	2,871	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	2,928	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	2,986	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	3,047	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	3,110	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	3,174	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	3,240	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	3,307	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	3,375	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	3,444	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	3,512	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	3,582	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	3,651	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	3,696	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

Iraq

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 – 1500: 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.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.