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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Venezuela	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	23,188	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	23,601	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	24,011	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	24,425	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	24,841	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	25,255	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	25,667	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	26,079	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	26,589	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	27,098	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	27,510	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	27,920	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	28,327	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	28,722	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	29,111	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	29,418	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	29,693	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	29,961	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	29,856	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	28,858	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	27,921	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	27,871	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	28,316	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	28,418	117,924

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).

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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