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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	5,185

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 Costa Rica; the database as a whole is cited above.