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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	34,280

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.