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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Finland	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,166	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,176	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,188	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,201	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,213	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,228	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,246	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,266	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	5,289	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	5,313	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	5,339	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	5,363	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	5,388	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	5,414	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	5,439	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,463	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,481	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	5,495	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,508	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,516	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,522	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	5,531	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	5,542	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	5,556	17,288

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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.