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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Ecuador	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	12,268	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	12,446	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	12,629	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	12,827	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	13,074	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	13,368	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	13,661	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	13,915	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	14,133	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	14,352	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	14,569	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	14,786	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	15,002	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	15,218	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	15,433	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	15,647	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	15,860	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	16,072	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	16,282	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	16,489	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	16,693	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	16,894	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	17,093	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	17,288	3,876

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project