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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Iraq	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,076	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,748	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	23,440	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,212	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,979	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,726	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,531	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,706	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	26,429	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	26,969	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,024	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	28,956	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,974	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	31,321	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	32,779	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	33,857	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	34,674	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	35,437	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,200	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,015	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,846	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,673	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	39,491	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	40,364	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.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.