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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Côte d’Ivoire
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	17,106
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	17,552
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	18,010
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	18,438
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	18,895
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	19,432
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	19,968
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	20,512
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	21,097
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	21,699
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	22,285
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	22,845
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	23,343
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	23,879
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	24,492
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	25,104
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	25,719
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	26,348
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	26,984
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	27,614
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	28,252
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	28,895
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	29,546
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	30,279

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 Côte d’Ivoire; the database as a whole is cited above.