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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sri Lanka	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,354	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	19,610	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	19,838	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	20,060	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	20,297	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	20,529	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	20,703	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	20,917	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,120	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	21,315	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	21,503	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	21,713	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	21,918	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	22,120	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	22,320	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	22,517	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	22,711	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	22,899	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	23,080	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	23,254	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	23,420	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	23,579	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	23,732	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	23,796	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.

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 Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.