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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Thailand	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	78	59,748	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	79	60,165	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	80	60,746	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	81	61,323	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	82	61,884	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	83	62,425	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	84	62,956	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	85	63,467	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	86	63,937	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	87	64,381	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	87	64,804	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	88	65,208	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	89	65,599	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	90	65,970	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	91	66,332	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	92	66,673	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	92	66,975	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	93	67,250	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	94	67,506	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	95	67,750	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	96	67,975	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	97	68,180	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	98	68,366	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	98	68,457	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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; the database as a whole is cited above.