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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Japan	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	126,512	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	126,755	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	127,056	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	127,324	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	127,558	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	127,658	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	127,679	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	127,762	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	127,904	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	127,969	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	127,958	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	127,967	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	127,755	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	127,476	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	127,257	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	127,186	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	127,034	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	126,857	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	126,631	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	126,368	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	126,092	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	125,634	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	125,427	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	124,762	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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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.