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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Romania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	623	22,414	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	623	22,262	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	623	22,106	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	622	21,931	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	621	21,828	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	621	21,704	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	621	21,571	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	620	21,443	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	620	21,129	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	621	20,779	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	622	20,607	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	623	20,485	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	622	20,385	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	622	20,296	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	622	20,224	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	621	20,151	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	620	20,055	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	618	19,938	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,823	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,713	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	613	19,622	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	612	19,496	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	611	19,351	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	610	19,266	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

Montenegro

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.