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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	22,239

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.

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.