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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Ecuador	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	78	12,268	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	79	12,446	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	80	12,629	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	81	12,827	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	82	13,074	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	83	13,368	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	84	13,661	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	85	13,915	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	86	14,133	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	87	14,352	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	87	14,569	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	88	14,786	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	89	15,002	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	90	15,218	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	91	15,433	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	92	15,647	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	92	15,860	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	93	16,072	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	94	16,282	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	95	16,489	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	96	16,693	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	97	16,894	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	98	17,093	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	98	17,288	3,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.