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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	7,666

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.