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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Madagascar	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	15,259	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	15,707	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	16,162	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	16,631	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	17,114	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	17,610	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	18,120	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	18,641	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	19,173	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	19,717	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	20,272	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	20,837	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	21,413	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	21,999	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	22,593	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	23,196	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	23,806	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	24,423	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	25,044	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	25,671	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	26,302	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	26,936	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	27,573	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	28,237	34,280

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

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 Madagascar; the database as a whole is cited above.