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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Belarus
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	10,064
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	10,034
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	10,000
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	9,955
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	9,905
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	9,856
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	9,807
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	9,764
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	9,734
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	9,713
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	9,697
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	9,681
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	9,662
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	9,643
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	9,624
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	9,605
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	9,585
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	9,564
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	9,542
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	9,519
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	9,495
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	9,469
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	9,442
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	9,400

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 Belarus; the database as a whole is cited above.