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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	6,291

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.