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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	47,625

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.

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)