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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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.