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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Ghana	Cambodia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	19,327	12,122
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	19,792	12,317
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	20,280	12,504
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	20,806	12,691
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	21,350	12,881
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	21,900	13,076
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	22,469	13,276
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	23,058	13,461
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	23,661	13,630
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	24,270	13,808
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	24,899	13,990
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	25,559	14,162
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	26,244	14,322
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	26,945	14,480
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	27,664	14,637
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	28,405	14,793
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	29,146	14,994
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	29,879	15,238
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	30,617	15,480
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	31,362	15,717
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	32,111	15,944
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	32,864	16,149
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	33,622	16,338
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	34,280	16,514

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).

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

No separate list is published for Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.