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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Azerbaijan	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	8,056	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	8,127	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	8,194	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	8,257	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	8,319	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	8,391	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	8,475	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	8,565	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	8,657	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	8,750	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	8,842	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	8,933	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	9,025	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	9,117	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	9,210	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	9,302	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	9,393	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	9,481	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	9,567	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	9,649	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	9,727	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	9,802	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	9,874	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	9,918	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.

All data sources

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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 Azerbaijan; the database as a whole is cited above.