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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	South Africa	Albania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	46,257	3,085	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	46,958	3,065	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	47,820	3,047	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	48,480	3,038	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	48,951	3,026	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	49,478	3,014	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	50,054	2,998	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	50,667	2,979	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	51,339	2,957	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	52,077	2,934	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	52,862	2,915	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	53,682	2,900	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	54,518	2,892	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	55,356	2,888	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	56,215	2,882	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	57,075	2,876	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	57,947	2,868	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	58,830	2,863	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	59,715	2,861	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	60,595	2,854	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	61,469	2,842	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	62,355	2,825	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	62,900	2,799	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	63,382	2,787	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.

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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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.