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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Ecuador	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	12,268	433
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	12,446	438
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	12,629	443
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	12,827	448
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	13,074	454
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	13,368	460
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	13,661	467
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	13,915	474
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	14,133	482
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	14,352	491
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	14,569	500
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	14,786	509
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	15,002	521
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	15,218	533
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	15,433	547
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	15,647	560
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	15,860	571
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	16,072	586
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	16,282	599
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	16,489	610
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	16,693	623
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	16,894	633
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	17,093	643
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	17,288	651

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.