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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Denmark	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	78	5,322	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	79	5,339	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	80	5,358	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	81	5,377	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	82	5,391	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	83	5,404	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	84	5,420	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	85	5,438	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	86	5,461	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	87	5,494	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	87	5,524	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	88	5,548	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	89	5,571	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	90	5,592	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	91	5,614	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	92	5,644	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	92	5,683	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	93	5,730	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	94	5,766	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	95	5,795	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	96	5,818	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	97	5,831	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	98	5,855	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	98	5,907	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

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 Seychelles, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.